2003-09-14
abrahams
we used to go there forever ago
when being sixteen was such a big deal
every thursday, friday and saturday night
getting the eight fifteen bus to town
in jeans that could fit two people down
sitting in the bottom bar
driking cokes or if we were lucky, mixing it with vodka
avoiding the evil pink haired fat woman who always demanded ID that we never had
the black ink on backs of hands that showed you'd paid your dues to get into the godforsaken hole
perching on the covered pool table drinking vodka and coke, counting pretty boys and kissing boyfriends
there would be the time we sat on the sofas during the winston sets
when we'd sit in front of ed and steven just watch them whilst pretty boys would ska-dance behind us and get all hot and sweaty
girlfriends would run and grab glasses of water to cool them down
there would be the time i snuck out when i was fourteen for my first taste of that place, telling my parents i was staying at beths house
issac would always be there and he would stand in the middle of the dancefloor whilst bands would play their hearts out, and he would just bob his head in apprecation
and sixteenth birthday parties when nicknames were made up in the form of sexually transmitted diseases - lydia-chlamydia
when a drunken kirby tried juggling with bottles on the landing but hit the roof and glass went everywhere
dancing to the prodigy, listening to johlen play and holding boyfriends hand and thinking that this was our little band and this was happiness
and i try to remember the happy things because the bad things overshadow the memories of smiling faces and dancing bodies and loud guitars and drums
im sorry i hurt you, im sorry i couldnt tell you why i hated that place so much
yet a part of me is glad i went there last night because now i have other memories that i made
like sitting in front of you whilst you played the drums on my head and poured water in my hair
listening to ridgevex and being amazed at how much theyve improved over the last year
sitting on the pool table and drinking legal alcohol and smoking legal cigarettes
talking to random people about random things
getting hott boys numbers
and i dont know if you saw, but i smiled a lot last night, both at the memories i made in that bar, and the memories i had
thissidedown at 10:52 a.m.