Fairway Market
by Cindy Prince
May 17, 2007
It's just a vacant lot now—
with various grasses nearly knee high
but there are memories there.
Of Mayrose Bologna and Colby moon cheese—
sliced thin, but not too thin.
Of Bob and Dick,
and how they extended credit so
our family of nine could eat.
Of Sweet Tarts and bubble gum
and that powdery candy in a straw
that tasted both sweet and sour
as we walked back to Granny and Papas
on a hot summer day.
It's just a vacant lot now...
About the author:
Fairway Market was a little brick grocery in Cape Girardeau, Missouri that would deliver, if you needed them to, to your home. We always had an ongoing bill with them that Dad paid on every time he got his check from the dairy where he worked as a milkman.
I now live in Jasper, Arkansas with my husband and four children, where I write, paint, and work at a library.
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