Kids’ Table by James LaForge

Kids’ Table

by James LaForge

Remember when we used to sit at the kids’ table and dream of not sitting at the kids’ table? Picturing what the world was like at eye-level with the grown-ups, fantasizing of exciting lives of suits and ties and car keys, eagerly waiting to leave our naive bodies for the hollow promise of the real world.

Remember how the kids’ table got smaller and smaller over the years? And how suits and ties and car keys turned to stress and grief and heartbreak until one day the kids’ table sat on the curb, riddled with stains and cracks, waiting to be picked up and thrown in the minivan of some other poor soul who outgrew the kids’ table.