at the end of the school
year
how will the
streets & avenues go
that used to be
the skeletal frame
of the whole
charles street
marshall avenue
california & termon & davis
avenues
woods
run
brighton &
columbia places
self-fulfilling politician
prophets
have long
predicted & facilitated
depopulating &
dying
of the component
neighborhoods
after
all
no one loafs on the
stoops anymore
music
imposters have invaded & replaced
the marcels and the
chantels
yet the
continuum
and great
grandchildren
of the
last great industrial migration
cling on desperate
fringes
warhola scrapes
along
sorting
out
a turquoise front
fender of a '55 ford
that used to park during school
hours
on island
avenue
near the corner
store
now closed
near the oily oliver football
field
now
grass
--- e b bortz