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[aid] => mick
[title] => Change
[time] => 2006-09-03 10:02:16
[hometext] => Progress does come at a cost
[bodytext] => Laughter echos through alleyways a concrete jungle where children play the days of dells and hollows they have all gone away fire hydrants broke and spewing while children jump into the spray no more ponds to swim in they have all gone away fire escapes with clothes lines hanging the monkey bars of this day no more tree houses with boys climbing they have all gone away kick the can, hide and seek mashed potatoes, chicken fried steak Saturday cartoons, sandlots and more replaced by progess knocking at our door slow afternoon walks, arm in arm replaced by guns to do us harm drives through the country, kids in tow no more country to see, only concrete to grow a tear I shed when as a child these things meant boredom to me years later now I look around a tear I shed at the changes I see [comments] => 1 [counter] => 183 [topic] => 43 [informant] => pattirobbi [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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