For rent
it's gone up from last year
everybody says it's the nighborhood--all these
wonderful small businesses that I love so much and make me so happy
are bringing people in from other neighborhoods.
Our sleepy little place
with the statue and the square
has become
"a destination point."
Last weekend the place was crawling with strangers.
Who are these people?
Next thing
you know
we'll get a Whole Foods somewhere on the corner, probably near Kedzie
or something
and all our rents will jump $200 a month or more
and those of us who have been here since before all this happened
will have to move.
I had to get on the wait list for my favorite restaurant where I've been eating, kibbutzing and checking email for 3 years.
It was Sunday.
What happened?
The owner of the coffee house next to the $4/movie theatre said:
"then the rich people will come in and ruin the place.."
and I do so agree.
I don't like rich people.
Do you?
They are so arrogant and full of entitlement
and they will probably see our little hood as a great
place to get good deals and congratulate themselves
on a kind of noblesse oblige "charity"--
and then it won't be charity anymore--
it'll be them, with their expensive jeans, buying up property
and making poor writers like me
move to some other place
where the prices are OK and sometimes in the early evening
it gets very quiet.
You can walk the streets at dusk and say hello to neighbors you
see
everyday
but if the rich move in
morale will disappear and
somebody
will break the windows
because what else can you do?
we don't want the police coming down on us
and yet
we are so angry!
Somebody did the job.
It was not me.
But I understand.
Sometimes you just have to
break the windows.
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