The Passed Note Issue 10 June 2019 | Page 11

taught them sex, which meant

everything.

I called them all to hang out like good

natured Richie like Ralph like Potsie.

To slide into dinette booths, and Fonzie,

leather-jacketed cool, the James Dean

we never knew hitting the juke box

we never knew, would somehow

appear and be laughing with us,

slapping backs with us together

at the shopping mall diner.