Fu

[Alan Sondheim]

Fu

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

I remember standing on the corner of James and Charles Street talking
to Platt Townend and she said why do you have to bring up those thing,
referring to my writing on the medical cases in Nazi Germany.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

I remember flinging her at the Blue and White dance across the floor just
to see if it could be done.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

The boys in the lockerrooms boasted of how many women they slept with, the
record being seventeen in one night.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

I remember Cherie Kanjorski going with me to the prom because she couldn't
get anyone else to go with her and later she water-skied into a diving
board.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

I made a secret list of my best friends because none of them were.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

I remember Dina Raker's breasts and saying I was sad her dad (maybe it was
her mom) died and she said you're not you don't care at all.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

I remember sitting out in a gym exercise and blaming the others for the
action and feeling shamed afterwards for my cowardice.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!

The only way I could peel out with my mom's Plymouth was in reverse.

How those years have passed away! Memories are all I have and I know
they're real! I'm not making anything up, I'm not fabricating! They happen
just as I tell them!


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