At Blue Island & 16th Street:
Deep down inside.
You know the place
with faces in the walls
that you can't really see
you know they are there
and they can see you
but you don't really care
because
you've been there too
the cool damp dark hard dirt grit
twisted metal rust
stone walls grind away
any memory of a home...
if you ever had one
2008 Pilsen/Little Village in Chicago.