<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388504" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nobody Lives Here Anymore</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">scarecrow in the yard, <br>eviction notice on the door.<br>the walls stripped bare<br>smell of ham and beans, <br>the sounds of laughter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and crying trapped<br>in the cobwebbed corners.<br>across the street a homosexual<br>man peeks through the curtains, <br>his breath of amaretto and nuts...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">watching the old man and woman<br>pack the remnants of a life<br>into a car, nowhere to go.<br>setting down his cup he walks<br>out the door, across the street....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">starts carrying boxes without a word.<br>till all is loaded that can be loaded, <br>and the rest left in a pile down<br>at the street, to be carried off....<br>then hugs, a tear, a few kind words....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">almost family, just neighbors, friends...<br>the old couple drives away without<br>looking back... the neighbor staring<br>at the empty boxes on the porch...<br>nobody lives here anymore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eric+Cockrell">Eric Cockrell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=388504" data-title="Nobody Lives Here Anymore de Eric Cockrell" data-description="scarecrow in the yard, eviction notice on the door. the walls stripped bare smell of ham and beans, the sounds of laughter and crying trapped in the cobwebbed corners. across the street a homosexual man peeks through the curtains, his breath o..."></div> </div> </div>

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