It has during the Vietnam Era when I was found guilty by an Ohio jury, guilty of not only abandoning the military, my life as well. Sitting in a small cell and fed cold beans and two week old bread for months before I was able to be treated like the rest of the cons in here. Thinking how dumb I was for fleeing the U.S. army. But at least I'm alive and can live to see another day. I don't know what the outcome might have been if I was still the gunner, but one thing is for sure and that is, my days are numbered here at the rock.
It was a long and undeserving five years of my existence when I finally left this hellhole of a joint. Stepping out into the unusual warm air, free world to come and go as I please once again. Hopping the next bus back to my hometown where I can eat normal food, get laid and catch a high school football game.
I felt to see my penis was still there though my tight jeans, while I made my way down the crowded college campus and over to the playground where I grew up and played kick ball. Fond memories were spilling out as I still see that large brown ball and kids my own age running rapidly throughout my cluttered mind, around the bases they went, while I was sitting on the stone wall in front of the old school house that appears smaller then I remembered. Allowing this laughter and screaming of girls in pigtails running across my feet that I can still vision wearing long dresses and dingy jeans. Giggling like I did then when I watched my dad driving by the paved playground after a long tiring workday. Then hopping off the stone wall as I walk swiftly towards the house around the corner of the shiny new chain link fence.
Mom embraced me the minute I entered the old two-story house and dad, well, still mad that I betrayed his Country. But I know in time he'll come around and we'll be talking about old times again. Sitting down at the dinner table was definitely a blessing to me, even though it was pea soup, still enjoying the way it tasted in my mouth and the manner in which all three of us were passing around the bread.
During the preparation of gathering up the fancy blue china and the short walk to the steel sink, where she stood with her back to me with two plates in her hands and the arthritis she wrote me about worsening. Insisting that I attend the football game tonight to meet a sweet young girl that had called earlier to remind me about. Thinking long and hard of who this girl is? Who I might be seeing tonight that makes me perspiring like hell.
Sitting across from dad in his easy chair and me on the worn-out sofa full of holes, while mom slaves over the hot soapy water in the next room as I distinctly hear the silverware clinging just when dad was lighting his pipe, adjacent me to enjoy the flavor and favorite show "Happy Days" that I could no longer watch in black & white without getting headaches from the lines in the TV set. So I reached the floor with my converse tennis shoes, deciding to leave a bit early for the opening kick-off across town in my holy jeans and flannel shirt. Picking up the set of keys to my old mustang outback from the table near the main glass door. I nearly forgotten how to drive when I nearly ram the fence next door backing out and old Mrs. Jones waving from her window with silver hair and a heavenly smile that was very much accustomed of seeing when I was very young.
When I finally reached the small stadium that I read in the paper that had been newly renovated, my eyes were severely weaken by two girls at the ticket booth, both which I knew from grade school, appearing before me with a cigarette in each of their curvy red and modest mouths. Talking about the guys they met at the bar last night.