When I was a little boy there was a snowstorm<\/p>\n
And it lasted for days.<\/p>\n
When it was over the snow was piled so high<\/p>\n
That I was trapped on my dead end street<\/p>\n
With my brothers and my parents<\/p>\n
And the neighbors.<\/p>\n
All I can remember is the mountain of snow the snowplows<\/p>\n
Placed right on my streetcorner<\/p>\n
And that the neighborhood kids and my brother and I<\/p>\n
Had some snowball fights.<\/p>\n
The one memory I have, a moment indelible in my mind,<\/p>\n
Is looking out the window at all the snow.<\/p>\n
The blinding white of it, the totality of it.<\/p>\n
I looked out wanting to be in it<\/p>\n
And I looked out happy I was safe and warm<\/p>\n
With the radiator hissing as I stood there in my jammies<\/p>\n
Thinking about whether to go outside for a while<\/p>\n
Or find some paper and a pencil and draw \u2013<\/p>\n
Knowing I could come back in the moment I was cold<\/p>\n
Or something went awry.<\/p>\n
All that snow and machinery of humanity at a standstill<\/p>\n
While Paul Asaparti and Paul Matto pummeled the Fox twins with snowballs<\/p>\n
As my brother Robert made them more and more to throw.<\/p>\n
I think that maybe the blizzard of \u201878<\/p>\n
Was the last time that I felt really safe.<\/p>\n
I know I haven\u2019t felt safe since<\/p>\n
For more than a day,<\/p>\n
If that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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