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back in the day
hey do you remember when your favorite thing to do was go outside and play. you couldn't wait to come home, do your homework, and hear yo momma say " don't be out there all day". and all you had to do to escape was do your homework and change into play clothes. you took a trip down the street to see Ms. Rosa Lee, you know the lady who sold pickles, chips, and penny candy. and i can see why kids are so out shape these days, all i remember is staying outside playing tag and hide and go seek and begging mother may i all day. but even if we were a little chubby or out of shape, i’m taking you back to those days, when momma used to say don’t worry about that, sugar that’s just a little baby fat. you remember when saturday morning was a ritual and all you had to do was watch alvin, simon and theodore piss dave off and wonder why, for what ever it was worth, why for so long was smurfette the only girl smurf? and I know ya’ll want to go back to when optimus was prime and when thunder cats thunder cats ho was your favorite line. aaaah, the days when summer really meant a break. from sun up to sun down all a sister had to do was play. and jellies were the craze, you had those little zig zag tan lines impressioned on your feet like a maze. then growing up we entered the era of the high top fade. and you wanted to dance like kid n’ play. and being in style meant rocking polka shorts with mismatched socks, and if your where funky fresh you had a swatch watch. and you couldn’t wait to go to your middle school dance, you knew you were cute, you had that pony tail fan. and that’s when everything started getting all hard boys and girls found out about each other, so we had to put up our guards. and then we had to go to high school and everything changed… money, hoes, and clothes, all a nigga knows. okay, i’m gonna stop right there because that seems to close to life today. damn i long for my life back in the day.
Robyn v. Evans
10-04-02
