Tag: gentrification
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Gentrification
After forty years the brownstones still seemed the same exceptfor the newer cars and the peoplein fashionable clothes walkinggolden dogs in chic comfort vests,all living in houses he couldn’t afford.He couldn’t believe he grew up herewhen the streets were livelywith black live matterand Gerald every summer out there with his rollerpainting fatsfix’s store front red.…
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Olive Trees
One day, a man with his little boyin a wagon rested under the shady branches of an olive tree.They ate cheese and bread and when they were done they picked olives. When the sacks were full and they grew tired, they slept under the wagon.In the morning they noticed that the earth below themsparkled and…