Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Chicago, on a day

Chicago, on a day by Barbara Ellen Meyer (Meyer-Spidell) circa 1989

Chicago
Where it is cold in the winter
Wet in the summer
and windy all year round

Water droplets swell with exhaust and sound
Where the shacks are made with aluminum and tires
and the men forget their names
when you ask them for it again it never remains the same

Children run shoeless and
men are armed with guns
Where many minds are dulled
and it is hung and so is the sun

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