What is this place

Nothing   Its no place

Why did you stop walking then   It seems like some place

Once some place

Right over there is where the house I grew up in stood

That house

No  Not the house

That house stands on the bones of the house I lived in

Bones

Bones

I understand a polack bought it knocked it down  He leveraged it at the last moment

The contract was that the house wasnt to be razed

Then how was it torn down

The sellers had taken the money from the house and bought another Would have left them between a rock and a hard place They really didnt want to live in the city anymore

Clever polack Id think hed think 

Extortion if the sellers werent elderly and wanted to fight

The basement was as big as the house above it Figured on the cheap he yanked out what he needed for looks then bulldozed what he could into the basement crushed it backfilled packed compressed it graded over it 

Bones

Hopefully he tapped it deep pylons Formed he poured concrete over it like gravedirt

Entombed

California pad construction This house sprawls nearly to the property lines One floor Building here like they do there

It looks good in the heartbeat to sell Their halflives are growing shorter and shorter

The house I grew up in was nearly one hundred years old when my folks bought it Old growth wood True two-by-fours True support timbers Brick foundation

The polack comes along so shrewd he thinks throws up shit and turns a quick buck in a desirable location

You dont think much of polacks

I am a polack

My argument is that houses are built to code just enough quality to cross a threshold minimal quality 

They aint built to last

Hardearned money spent on pisspoor product

The most important aspect of building now is profit

You could go on and on

I could

But I want to remember 1018 Remember the farmhouse the town grew up around          

A mile east of here is the townships cemetery on the banks of the Des Plaines River When my maw was a girl shed ride horses out here swim in the river picnic

Imagine the complexion of the day

                            choosing between swimming in the Lake Michigan or come inland and swim in a quiet treelined river

 

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