still

It’s been a long haul, you and I, but we’re still go­ing strong.

I re­mem­ber us not lik­ing each oth­er in 7th grade. I was ac­tu­al­ly scared of you when I first met you. But by 8th grade we were get­ting in trou­ble to­geth­er and lis­ten­ing to all of your punk records every day.

We lived a street apart, were at each other’s hous­es all the time, stay­ing the night, wel­come like fam­i­ly.

I ate all your mom’s cook­ies and drank all the in­stant tea from your fridge.

I watched you learn to change Josh’s di­a­pers. Now your ful­ly grown boys still call me Un­cle.

I call you Broth­er. It’s nev­er not made sense.

If any of your kids or wife reached out I’d help them as my own. We are fam­i­ly and al­ways will be.

You call me now at 6am on your way home from a night at work, at the same time I’m go­ing to work.

Oc­ca­sion­al­ly we go for months not talk­ing, but we al­ways pick back up where we left off as if not even a sec­ond has gone by.

It’s been a plea­sure to walk this earth with you, some­time next to you, al­ways in spir­it with you.

I al­ways look for­ward to the next movie or con­cert we will eas­i­ly do a turn­around plane flight for, with not a sec­ond thought – DEN>LAX or LAX>DEN; as eas­i­ly as if we were walk­ing over to see each oth­er again as teens, from Banyan St. to Im­pe­r­i­al Ct. or visa ver­sa.

Can’t wait to see Jaw­box to­geth­er. Can’t wait for the next movie. Con­cert. Oh fuck, who even needs a rea­son.

Let’s keep this up. Til the end.

Hap­py birth­day, Tony Mar­tinez. I love you, broth­er.

 

—lance web­ber

Flom­mist Lance Web­ber is in the band. Copy­right © 2019 Lance Web­ber.

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