Nostalgia

[CRNDLSM]

I tripped a few times with tense changes, but there's is there was, right?  but it's also the narrators natural tense because of the meter...  

From a bench on a bluff in a park off a street
with a school and a church and a mill that ground wheat,because all the prepositions are different why not try 'by a' or something instead of the both 'and a's
there’s a view of a lake that’s so grey and so bleak
that I’d sit and pretend I was looking at feet.

There’s a field by the shops where the children would play
with our baseballs and bats ‘til one mother would say
“All you kids should go home, or there’ll be hell to pay”
but my dad was a drunk, and could not be waylaid.I like this way laid, it stops me in the rhthym and makes me think of it more

There were folks in the town that were folksy and sweet folks are folksy?
like the butcher’s wife Joan who would package our meat,
who opined with a smile that our cut was unique
having been the hind leg of a stillborn black sheep.

Thanks for the read!