Show Me the Place, 6

“Show me the place.”

Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

6: Amarillo, Texas: 4242 W. 13^th Street; 1952–53

The Air Force called my father back—

Korean War was on.

We left our home in Enid—and

Our Enid years were gone.*

We moved to Amarillo then—

A small brick house we found

On 13^th Street—a shaded street,

With sidewalks all around.

And there I learned to ride a bike—

And started second grade

At Avondale—a brand-new school—

And played and played and played.

My dad worked at the Air Force Base—**

He was a chaplain there.

We sometimes had a meal on-base—

Heard jets roar in the air.

The middle of my third-grade year

We moved back home at last.

Yes, three more years in Enid—and

Those years flew by so fast.

*Not quite. We would move back in 1953.

**Now closed.

from Google Earth