Degentrification: good neighborhoods going bad.
The idea that if you move to a better neighborhood your life will be better.
However there is nothing where you came from.
And you ask the question, why is there nothing where you came from?
Is the answer really that you thought that by moving you could, get away from your self?
You get to the new neighborhood. And you are still the bad person. You are still lazy. You are still a thief. You still disrespect everyone. You still don't like school. You don't like listening. You don't link learning. You don't like cleaning. You don't like planning. Your favorite thing is drinking alcohol like a fish and pretending to be an authority. You have no identification with your own children. You value honesty little. You don't really understand American life. And by all accounts you detest it.
And the new neighborhood goes downhill.
Just like the one you came from.
Where there is nothing. Where you came from, there is nothing.
But someone with money identified with you in some way. And that is how you made it to the new neighborhood. Someone that lived in the New neighborhood, but didn't like it. It didn't feel like home to them, because it didn't feel like nothing.
© 2024 Thomas Paul Murphy
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