In closing, more sadness

Perhaps I'm just depressed because of my job and the approaching winter, but all I see are sad endings. Eat at Joe's pizza place on 2nd between East 4th and 5th is closed. This happened before, maybe a year ago. Joe's was closed, and I was scared they had closed. He was just on vacation, and then they did a little reconstruction. Added some mirror, removed a booth, added a ledge for barstools. But this time, it looks like Joe is gone. There's plywood up around the storefront. I'll miss seeing Joe's enormous belly thinly covered with a messy teeshirt as he sat in front of the store fanning himself on a chair. I'll miss the old westerns I guess they watched on video on a ancient tv near the AC in the front. But most of all I'll miss Joe's slice hot out of the oven eaten on the half block walk to my apartment. Ugh, I feel like watching "the Champ."