Monday, March 11, 2019

Show Me the Place, 7

“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

7: 1706 E. Elm Ave.; Enid, Oklahoma

It’s 1953! We’re back!
And in the first house that we owned.
And Dad had bought a Pontiac—
I felt that I had been enthroned!

I was in third grade—back with friends.
We’d play and bike and run and lie—
I thought such wonder never ends.
It ended. ’56. July.

I learned we’d leave the Sooner State.
Off to Ohio we would go—
To Hiram. It would devastate
Me. Move away! Oh no! Oh no!

Dad and his 3 sons
1706 E. Elm
Enid, Okla.
August 1956


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