Things I Miss ... The Neuralgia of Nostalgia

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Things I Miss ... The Neuralgia of Nostalgia

I'm rarely sentimental
about things fundamental
but some days I miss
things like this ...

• coffee served in real cups
• sleeping in past noon
• Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip
• gas station attendants
• chrome
• boom boxes
• crinolines
• coloured toilet paper
• going steady
• my Davy Crockett hat
• 45 records
• Woolworth's Five and Dime
• tobogganing
• the Saturday matinée at the neighbourhood cinema
• reading interesting cereal boxes
• getting more than one Valentine's card
• marbles
• Brylcreem
• The Ed Sullivan Show
• TV dinners in aluminium plates
• drive-in movies
• drive-in restaurants
• birthday parties
• blue-soled Keds
• flying a cardboard box
• root beer floats
• lime cokes
• The Hardy Boys
• climbing trees
• backyard skating rinks
• Viewmaster film strips
• turtleneck sweaters
• bumper cars
• Bob Hope on the Oscars
• Wynola
• tree forts
• having cousins
• desert boots
• two cans and a long string
• peepholes
• walking on railway tracks
• pin-up models who actually left something to your imagination
• sock-hops
• snack bars in department stores
• face-to-face social networks
• rocket radios
• camping
• comic books
• teddy bears
• the circus
• playing pretend

There are lots of different people I miss as well
Some have likely gone to Heaven, others are probably in Hell,
But I guess it's pretty obvious and something that can't be hid,
The thing I miss most is just being a kid ...