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Meet me in Somerville

and drown matches in overpriced coffee.

Out of reach stars sit in the sky,

like decimals in my mind

trying to rearrange numbers

so I continue to buy

things that will satisfy me

for no longer than my favorite TV show.

Meet me in Somerville

where residents live on top of one another

just to afford rent. Do you know

about the underground economy

where greedy landlords

stuff the undocumented into triple-decker tents?

Meet me in Somerville

next to the crooked EBT sign

hanging on by yellowed tape

that changed texture

like the skin of a relapsing…

Meet me in Somerville

by the empty space

occupied by the previous generation

that grew up to be cultural myths and urban legends

layered inside the foundations of gentrification.

Broken promises jotted down on alleyway walls

by the city’s most unreliable narrator.