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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578426" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The South Side of Chicago'' by David Hart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">''The South Side of Chicago'' by David Hart</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The South Side of Chicago<br>Whence those childhood years were spent<br>Skip-walking upon grimacing cracked sidewalks<br>Hastening through filth floored garbage canned<br> flanked alleyways to-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The forlorn house-windows weeping chrystalline shards-<br> cascading glass tears<br>'Property Condemned' blared in scarlet on the door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Someone lives there' it was said, <br>'the man who gathers things from the garbage cans'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The pebble strewn church yard, where, in prickly winter, <br> scarved boys coerce the bell to toll with swift flung<br> snowballs catapaulted to a shivering bell tower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The South Side of Chicago, <br>The year of the big church fire<br>That day it did burn and claw<br>At the hot black night sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People gathered, assembled in solemnity<br>Aghast, huddled and shoving to see<br>That hallowed place whose torrents<br>Of Sunday's serenities and dressups<br>Now would no longer be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The South Side of Chicago<br>There, the swill darkened tavern<br>That nightly gulped down shadow faced spectres<br>A lad cries out, 'the bar, someone stabbed in the<br> head, come and see'.<br>'Not I', I said, 'not a sight I'd care to see', <br> as an acidic sadness enveloped me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boys came together wearing their<br> jackets and coats-symbols affixed, emblems<br> proudly donned-so they knew who they were.<br>'Wanna join? ' 'No thanks', I said, 'Glad to be<br> just solitary me'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched them, fighting their rivals<br>With chains, steel pipes and knives<br>Fearing their bloody deeds.<br>Content to be alone<br>Alone and free</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The South Side of Chicago<br>In cramped classrooms scented in<br> soap and sawdust<br>Mostly attentive I would be<br>Amidst tatterly clothed children<br> -waiting for recess, lunch or<br>time to go home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At recess, the garbage men came<br>And roused a battalion of rats<br>That scattered pell-mell<br>Amidst little girl shrieks<br> and screams<br>Little boys chortling<br>Chased those rats frightened<br> away<br>Far away<br>On the South Side of Chicago<br>2001DHartUSA</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Hart">David Hart</a><div class=q>
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The South Side of Chicago
Whence those childhood years were spent
Skip-walking upon grimacing cracked sidewalks
Hastening through filth floored garbage canned
 flanked alleyways to-

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