Shoeboxes

by Jude Joseph

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The Ministry houses come down
And the luxury apartments spring up all over town
McMansions and nuclear families continue to push us out
Now another block of council flats
Goes the same way as the old one down by the tracks
On Markham Avenue
It's gonna be our little house on the corner pretty soon

So what are you supposed to do
When the wants of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

Through the window see them walking by
New faces, so young and dressed to the nines
The old ones have mostly already left or died
The local businesses drop like flies
And turn into franchises, F45s
I've been seeing people sleep rough and beg
On the main drag for the first time

Remember when the yuppies wouldn't dare to ride this line?
But things were alright if you could put up with some petty crime
Somehow I always thought that we had more time

So we'll carry on like nothing's wrong
Keep our things half-packed until we're moved along
To a row of uniform shoeboxes out in the east
And say that "home is where the heart is"
Every year this place just gets more heartless
What was once community is now little more than
Discrete houses lined up neat

All the holdouts waiting for release
Just looking forward to some peace

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released June 11, 2023

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