class
neighborhood, with average
children,
average
men and women.
factory workers,
hair stylists
and secretaries. blue
collar folk.
two cars,
a dog, a cat.
and a yard
captured by a chain link
fence.
duplexes
stuck together
with a flat tar roof.
everyone waved
and barbequed on the weekend.
they shoveled
snow together.
some went to church
on Sundays.
they borrowed things
from one
another.
became friends.
the women gossiped
while
hanging their wet clothes
on the line out back.
the men
bowled
on Friday nights.
wearing shirts
like Marlon Brando.
some moved in the later
years, went south.
some died
in their homes.
eventually they were
all gone.
but more people came
to do the same. why not?
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