GOOD AND GONE

Things were easier
when I was a young girl in New Jersey.
I was pretty then
and people would listen to my opinions
– if not really hearing them.

They would give me things
back then
and sing Tom Waits to me,
even at the most inopportune times.

Those were days
good and gone.
I miss it
being a young girl in New Jersey
and when I can
I shall return.