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
1514, Thursday,
19 5. 16
0756, Friday, 20
5. 16
