Federal
Riding through this shell
(towards the center)
with my head half-resting on my right hand
I could almost see
this city the way it once was:
the next-door neighbors and their kids
with small world backyards
and the bustle of commerce pushing
everyone to work, but maybe
with a smile,
the feared century change still
so many decades away.
My, how things have turned to shit.
-Joe Decarolis
