the house

a poem

Ashlan Isadore McHugh

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Photo by Roger Starnes Sr on Unsplash
The house I was born in 
belongs to another owner now
bought in a cheap deal
someone else who uses it for shelter
and a trash heap
It was outdated.

The house I was raised in
wasn’t a house
was hitched to a truck and rolled away
someplace else to degrade
and be folded into the rubbish.
It was replaced.

The house I was formed in
wasn’t a house
has another tenant
someone else to make the rent
and occupy Lot 3-B of the…

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