Andrea desires change.
Andrea is determined to find it.
Andrea decides her fate
day by day
hour by hour.
Second after existential instant
Andrea dreams of a better future.

Andrea, drunk,
dredges memories of a past
drenched with great pleasures.
Andrea remembers residing summers
in Scranton
at six and sixteen
and again
at seventeen.
Andrea dreams
of a return
to bygone days.

Andrea understands reality
is not this partial recall
nor a fantasy of prior periods of revelry.
She knows not everything
can be retrieved through memories
but still
Andrea appreciates the previous.
Andrea asks for the past.
Andrea dreams
of what used to be.