Sunday, September 6, 2020

PAD 8 Poetic Bloomings Shopping Mall


The Richland Mall Pook

My cousin had a crush
on the neighbor guy for a long time.
I dated a guy for years, but we broke up.
He asked out my cousin. The crush asked me out.
We happened to go out on the same night.

Afterwards when my cousin and I compared notes,
she and my ex went to the mall looking for Richie the Pook,
the big costumed mascot creature for Richland Mall,
but they couldn’t find him.
The Pook was at the hockey game where my date and I were.

Later, I got back with my ex for a couple more years.
My cousin never did get with her crush.
That night was such an oddity in my life,
I would be tempted to think I had dreamed it,
if it wasn’t for the Pook. I remember that well.

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