other cities in the world seem to age with a sense of grace<\/p>\n
but American cities grow into a state of forlornness.<\/p>\n
a film of rust and mold plague the surfaces<\/p>\n
of neighborhoods once booming in their adolescence,<\/p>\n
like the raspy hungover stubble on a drunkard\u2019s face.<\/p>\n
smokestacks erected as proud monuments<\/p>\n
for winning the west<\/p>\n
now stand in sunbaked isolation, a mocking vulgarity,<\/p>\n
epitaphs to a hope quickly ignored and forgotten.<\/p>\n
graffiti tattoos the train cars and drainages,<\/p>\n
flashes of color sprawled across a hardened skin,<\/p>\n
providing the only real signs of life in this desolation,<\/p>\n
but even they are bleached and faded now,<\/p>\n
chipped and lost to the deep wrinkles of the city.<\/p>\n
this is the premature aging of American cities<\/p>\n
that makes us long for a prairie fire,<\/p>\n
a quick end to life turned decrepit.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
to feel lonely in another country is expected.<\/p>\n
to feel lonely in a new town is understandable.<\/p>\n
but loneliness in the place you grow and have grown<\/p>\n
can be unbearable, unrelenting,<\/p>\n
only truly known in cities that should have never existed,<\/p>\n
in cities that no longer want you.<\/p>\n
– jordan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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