A Fair to Remember

[couchgrouch]

A Fair to RememberTold her I'd fix the porch swing, as soon as I got backthen hit the scrapyard, lookin' for a part for my ol' Pontiacout with the wrecks n pigeons, a Ferris Wheel lay on its sidethough covered with dust, and time's heavy rust...it turned back to a magic nightwhen the moon lay like a pumpkinupon that harvest fairthere was JD in our sodathe funhouse left us scaredit was so long ago nowor that's how it could seemcos time's more than moons and yearsit's memories and dreamsso it's been awhile since that Septemberbut I'm still there cos that county fairwas a fair to rememberit was me n Jane's fourth date, I felt our first kiss was dueafter several tries, I won her a prize...a rag doll with red wool shoesI got her up in that wheel, and planted one on her lipswell...she dropped that doll, and watched it fall but then she finished my kissas the moon lay like a pumpkinupon that harvest fairand starlight was a bow of silverheaven had tied in her hairit was so long ago nowor that's how it could seemcos time's more than moons and yearsit's memories and dreamsso it's been awhile since that Septemberbut I'm still there cos that county fairwas a fair to rememberI forgot about my car parts, got some tools from my truckfin'lly got one seat loose, paid the man twenty buckswell, Jane thought I was crazy, when she saw that rusty thingbut with soap and bleach, and some elbow grease it became our new porch swingand with her stitched up rag doll, we ride that night once againcos love's a Ferris wheel, her kiss makes me feel like it did back thenduring a fair to remembera fair to remember...(c)2006 Robert George