Cities look like someone else’s party
\nwhen you’re older.
\nThey look like your own party
\nWhen you’re young.<\/p>\n
We didn’t have much money,
\nthe downtown of my childhood,
\nthe one my grandmother and sister
\nand I would visit by bus
\nevery Saturday,
\nhad become a ghost town.<\/p>\n
So, we bussed from the Avenue
\nto the Plaza.
\nEverywhere we weren’t wanted
\nbecause of our age.<\/p>\n
I have friends
\nwho have joined
\nthe resurgance of Historic Northeast.
\nI have others
\nwho have moved away,
\nand one, in particular,
\nwho wouldn’t recognize our
\nold haunts.<\/p>\n
We have our own corners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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