What I did on my summer vacation

It was the title of so many

return-to-school essays,

come September.

Can you go back in time (in your mind)

to those summers

before you had a summer job

and were too young to drive?

When the only transportation

were you two feet?

There were long hours

when you were not required to do anything

(except make your bed)

We walked miles and talked about nothing.

What do you want to do?

Was the topic of many conversations.

Usually a walk to K-mart or a dip in the pool.

My friends bought eye liner

or cigarettes.

(I never had money for either)