5/20

Apartment living
Music ripping
Chilling

Riding my Schwinn
To sophomore year

Glacier cherry
Gatorade

Back in my backpack
Next to lighthearted
Bags of summertide

Turning sixteen in
Washington heat

Never knew
I was new
Had to choose to
Do something with it

With this
First relationships
And apartment
My limit

Downtown Puyallup
I had no idea
That in the next
Four years

I’d go from
A helpless boy
To having no fear

5/20/17
Four straight years
Of conquering

No longer a
Shy teenager in a city
That seemed so
Massive and scary

In the backseats
Of cars where lights
Where whizzing by
Each a mile long

And I was still
Ripping songs
Missing “home”

When in Rome
You go to plays
Lakewood matinee

Seemed like so
Far away from
My
5/20 daze

5/20/13
No idea where
I could be

Published by Jake Thomas Shaw

Concerned with memory, currency, and destiny, I strive to capture each one as they happen. Join me and consume reality! Radio Reality. City!

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