Bye, Borders

Kips Bay Borders is closing. For good. In six weeks, nothing. Borders is filing for bankruptcy and this is the result. Park Ave, Wall St, Kips Bay. Not sure how I should feel about it. I dreaded the place, I hid myself so well from it, I told myself that I didn't belong there, but for six years, it was all I had to keep me going as I searched for better things. I have stacks of memories that belong to it, I have friends and loves that I made there. I never really believed it would ever go away. No matter what steps I took away from it, I somehow guessed that it would always be a place I could revisit, if only to laugh at how I no longer had to deal with it. But even still, I would rather it have outlived me, be there, always around, this little franchise store that pretended to be a friendly neighborhood store, that I spent so much energy making go.

Yes, it is sad, that's what it is. And I will miss it, because it is a part of me, good or bad, still a part of me.

Thank you Kips Bay. For giving me a job, for giving me money, for giving me friends, for giving me memories. I will be the saddest ex-employee you ever had.

SMW, peace out.

PS: Say this to those you are closest to: "Don't leave. I still need you."