the old camera shop
I’ll never forget the furling flags
above fire escapes
outside the walk-ups
of downtown Chicago.
it was on S. Wabash near the 623
S. Wabash Columbia College building.
an old camera shop
across the street,
now gone, replaced by a warehouse liquors.
and other signs of
progress washing over
my city, —
KFC
Subway
Pizza Hut
Dunkin Donuts
Baskin Robbins
open 24 hours
and a Tamarind
for the hip in the South Loop
but I’ll never forget the flags, furling,
above fire escapes
outside the walk-ups
of downtown Chicago.
– Hoc Scripsi
the platitudes of willful resemblance 