Corntown

This is a super rough draft typed on my iphone in the wee hours of the morning. It starts out somewhat coherent......

The cornfield starts next to our house and extended the entire length of our road. By early augury the corn was taller than us. Then, the field was ours. It became a place for children’s games and dreamsunti the farmers reclaimed the land in the fall. . The space between the rows of corn were just a bit wider than our shoulders these became the main thoroughfares of our corntown Inevitably there would be one or two wider rows which became designated the interstate highways. We created cross streets by removing a few stalks here and there. Nothing went to waste though (a rule of corntown) as the removed stalks were tied across other stalks with twine to create buildings. Jimmy built a market where we would all bring our baseball cards and trade them with each other. I built a pool Hall where we would shoot pool, or play cards. I even had a small table-top billiards table and waterproof cards that we left in the cornfield all summer.

She built a beauty parlor. It didn’t get much business though. Very few girls dared to venture into the narrow streets where a person could hide unseen just a row or two away. Because bog the lack of customers It was her idea to create a man entry at the edge of the corntown to lure customers into town. It worked. She even managed to collect an entrance fee of a dime sometimes a quarter.

There were two summers just before we became teenagers when corntown became the focus of our summer. Our secret children’s town became the hangout for kids from our neighborhood. The younger girls brought dolls and she would pretend to cut their hair for hours at aa time chart about going’s on in corntown and realtor as we referred to our real life town. Themselves be convinced that the doll

A freckle foolish little girl let hair would grow back. Ther dolls bags forever altered evening it out it’s a modern style surf said so convincingly. One prosperous day picked blackberries sold them in her msrkrt dozen kids town paid admission

Simple days where kids couples based on proximity and age always jimmy and her. A girl from school I was anxious to get her to kiss me two couples full of themselves she evenness cut one girls hair ok bb jimmy why don’t you let her cut your hair describe jimmy the wild boy so bad head shaved looked like a abbbaby same reaction when shaved in the army