THE TENACITY OF ARCHITECTURE

   

    I'm back.
        I dread returning to a town.
            I rented there once.
            That has a new door.
            And there I worked.
            This block is so rundown.
        I said I'll never step back
            in that store.
            I crashed a party there.
            That's new, to me.
            Those folks divorced.
            Their neighbors moved away.
            I guess that lady died.
                They closed her bakery.
            Remodeled.
            Gone.
            That's here till Judgment Day.
    New cities never frighten me
        because I re-create myself.
            But could I here?
                So few remain
                    who might recall my flaws.
    Could I forget my past?
        No, ever near are haunt houses.
            I know every ghost.
            The ones with my own face
                I dread the most.

 

 

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[TLK]

Excellent last two lines.