Sunday, October 22, 2023

Gentrification Blues 3

 

somebody bought the house across the street

and painted the fuckin’ brick white

Lowes truck pulled up

dumped off some cheap-assed Frigidaire

stainless steel kitchen shit

and now it’s back on the market

a hundred grand to the “good”

 

the coffee shop ain’t open at 6 am

a workin’ mans coffee

is served at 6 am

 

they tried to be cool

Black Lives Matter signs

No Justice No Peace

Know Justice Know Peace signs

no avail, natch

“when y’all show up the neighborhood goes to shit”

sez the neighbor

“ironic” sez my boy

“nothing ironic about it” sez neighbor

“we get the shit end of the stick either way

my ‘hood now be what they call 'mixed'

which would be fine

if it was the landlords that was mixed

but ya know that ain’t the case”

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