Inspired by Gerald Stern's "Columbia the Gem"
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| Split Level, Jerry Kunkel |
They lift this house aching in the nicest suburbia
The polite neighbor louder than the quiet voice
The smile. The cramped smile
Their time is reputation
Here the words can make cute finger puppets
of their hello's and pitying how are you's
Here the town poor can feel presumptuous stares
and the privileged upper crust can shut their
jewel encrusted doors a tad
Here the house erupts its sticky innards
and sits, in its thick silence, unlike the others
among ashes.
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