Nightlife
June 17, 2022•219 words
We walk at night,
our children asleep,
through the streets of the Village
filled with the same people as in the day
now drunk and louder.
Not a city but a playground for the wealthy
in their twenties.
On the sidewalks and doorways each pod
a bubble of shared experiences and expectations,
wrapped in their confidence of being
correct.
But I am harsh.
It is that they are drunk
and I am not,
but I have been drunk before
and remember
feeling how they feel.
And I am filled with shame ...
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