There must have been an age when their neighborhood was found in the 'Prime Real Estate' section of The Post. & every time a moving truck would force itself up that embedded slope, the new home owners would exchange contented looks, breathe a satisfied sigh and smile, pleased with their new decision & eager to forge their new suburban homestead.
To think, for such a reasonable price, they were only 20 minutes from the city. And if they bribed their super& went to the roof & craned their necks, they could see them...
Those persuasive, intoxicating lights that have that have attracted to many urban pilgrims with allure and the glamor of a new, reformed city life.,
The residents of this neighborhood had already tried their luck, and whether they had found it or not, they ended up across the river, in North Jersey, living vicariously through the events and moods of the city, parasitically feeding off of its resources, (and consequently the famous Brick Oven Pizza.)
Yet, from an outside perspective, these residents were far from city dweller
Their neighborhood now adhering to the reputation of a shanty-town,
a crowded slum just far away enough from a metropolis.
The overpacked layout of houses and apartment complexes were packed like little red and white monopoly pieces stacked in the crook of a hill.
And at night if you stood at the right distance and silently observed for a bit of time, you would see the golden glow of comfort, emanating from every window, as the residents watched their favorite shows inside.
And if you watched particularly hard, you might even see the houses breathing; deep and consistently, as if they were all sleeping.
& every house would soon begin to resemble a square block of a comfortable patch work quilt.
Every glowing window and breathing condo would begin to melange together into an ambiguous microcosm of society.
...i need to start using punctuation. and complete sentences.
1 comment:
punctuation & complete sentences? no way. keep it out of the box.
Post a Comment