Memories
By Steve Vogrich
Poem #1
Knees bent
Legs quivering
We got ready for the big game against Stevenson
Through the door
Into the gym
In the layup line
On the bench
In the game
Poem #2
when the music was very loud
Listening to different musicians
lollapalooza was like a war of attrition
Growing tired is what we did
we looked at the map of the grid
Trying to find Kendrick Lamar's stage
and ended up getting to go backstage
Poem #3
yelling at each other
competing hard
talking smack
crying after a loss
celebrating after a win
Poem #4
we immediately became close friends
to play basketball at the rec
to hang out at our houses
to go swimming at your pool
to go to your lake house
We created a close bond
Poem #5 Haiku
We watched the sunset with friends
And played cards inside
Letter
One of the fondest memories I have of us is when my family went up to your lake house. There is one part of that weekend that sticks out in my mind: tubing. Water splashing our faces, we tried not to fall off the tube. Your dad--a quiet man--surprised me by relentlessly trying to make us fall off. Laughing hysterically, I fell off the tube because of how competitive your dad had become. I had a ton of fun and I wished that we could have stayed up there longer. When we were done on the lake, we had a ton of fun playing board games in your house with our families. We stayed up until around 2:30 playing monopoly if I am remembering correctly.
This memory sticks out to me because we used to have so much fun and it’s sad now that you are in college. I hope that we will be able to do it again sometime this summer. I think I will remember this weekend for a very long time because it is when we became very close friends. We had always been close friends; after hanging out all weekend I think we both considered each other to be one of our best friends.
In the future, I can’t wait to hang out over the summer when you are back from college break. I’m sure we will go up to your lake house again and it will be a blast. I also hope to come visit you at Marquette with Tyler and Noah and maybe some other friends. We will have a blast, going to Marquette basketball games, and you can show us the rest of the college experience. When I leave for college I’m sure it will be more difficult to stay in touch, but I’m sure we’ll be able to text each other and snapchat occasionally. Also, we will be able to hang out over the summer have a blast playing FIFA and other things.