15,897. IN THOSE ANTIQUATED HALLS

IN THOSE ANTIQUATED HALLS 

The phone wires were covered in fabric

and on the earpiece hung on a wire. To

speak, you had to talk right to the wall!

You held the earpiece to your ear, and

flailed. I remember how people were

always frenzied, looking all around,

while talking : Picture Jimmy Stewart

with a hot poker up his butt.

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I missed so much, growing up, I might

not have needed being present. Thinks 

grow funny in the distant past. A lot of

the officials interiors were often green;

two tones of green, actually, and broken

with a horizontal seam along the walls.

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Police stations, schools, town offices; they

all had a certain look, and those odd, round

men that sauntered about, in their colorful

wide 1940s' ties, all resembled Andy Devine.