Remembrance

We all hold on to memories ,many of them never uttered out loud or even conscientiously known until a small detail takes us back like watching a movie.
My memories come to me in always too bright of a light.It seems that there was always no place to hide ,things were sharp and focused or maybe I made them look like that.
I remember minute details from random times in my life and of course there's no better place to put intimate never talked about memories than on a public space where anyone can stumble across them.So there it is, the moment the came back to me last night while trying to fall asleep
memory #1
the kid who could eat earthworms.
I never knew his real name or if he was a boy or a girl,the short choppy black hair made me think he's a boy.
His face was always dirty and quiet but after each rain his moment of glory would arrive when with dirty fingernails he would pick up earthworms from the puddles and eat them.
The other kids were constantly talking/cheering/daring all this time but I just stood there watching, holding my little brother's hand tight and trying to push a thought out my mind ;maybe he's hungry.Sometimes he would spit a chewed up wriggly worm and dirt in his palm to prove he's really eating them and from his palm looking behind him I could see the muddy street ,the overflowing garbage chute from the 10 story apartment building , stray dogs fighting for food in it and I was still faintly pushing away the thought that nobody can be that hungry.