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Chimneys

CEE

I apologize, honey
I just couldn’t live there
That old area of town
Exclusive neighborhood of Old
Where the houses have all remained
Maintained
And the median’s manicured
And the city is bound in manacles
To keep old streetlamps up
Dark red brick streets
The curbs are even shaped
More like when I was a kid
The grass has that same consistency
But, you know, I’m Not a kid
Much as that hurts
We should have househunted in the Summer
People walking pretty doggies
Waving, lemonade, from wide wooden porches
The “fine” of it, that sunshine feeling of “fine”
Instead, in Winter, I saw Death, saw Hell
A 1946 or ’56 or ’66 or so
Rotted away into darkness
I want this world to be what it was
I know it can’t be
You showed me a popped pod, a dead chrysalis
Those towering, hollow bastions
Frightened me
They were The Wild Things of Sendak
Ready to kill Max

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