strawberry_mansion
kerry di lived here, can you imagine
it’s the kind of place that makes you lose faith,
crushing
a bleak assault of the senses
the sloping cemetery above the schuylkill river, brown-gray, is a noncolor. night of the living dead was filmed in a cemetery like this, here in pennsylvania (i checked) with dry grass and no living feeling people in sight.

coasting down diamond street
eyes glued to the view, i feel forced to take it in.
three-story rowhouses rust red and brown,
paint peeling off the bricks and sagging porches
vases of fabric flowers fading in so many windows
and whole blocks of abandoned houses with windows boarded or punched-out like missing teeth.
there are no children, only slow-moving men in black coats and crows keeping watch along the rooftops.
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kerry he smirked at me for crying. i couldn't help it. 220105
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