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Home Sweet Home

Mice in the wall
  rats in the hall
Our first apartment 
  sure had it all

A cockroach or two
  for dinner would do
We'd laugh when they floated
  face up in the stew

Right outside the window
  were the railroad tracks
As the trains would roar by
  my dad's dentures would clack

Our creaky old three-flat
  the city finally tore down
Rats, rice and roaches relocated
  to a more modern playground

Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2021

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Paula Goldsmith Date: 12/6/2021 9:23:00 AM Love your "Home Sweet Home" creative/fun~story/write. Guess the rats, rice and roaches relocated to a newer home. Have a blessed day/week................ Login to Reply

P.S. Awtry Date: 12/5/2021 8:55:00 AM “Sure had it all”! What a fun verse you’ve spun from those memories. Awful place—fantastic write! :) Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/6/2021 6:56:00 PM Yeah. It was pretty awful there. Thank God, I was too young to care much. :)

Jennifer Proxenos Date: 12/5/2021 6:17:00 AM After we sold our 4 bedroomed house a beautiful landscapped garden swimming pool and a gazebo, we rented until we found a far far smaller place looks like a fairy tales house our far smaller garden I lanscapped, but the house in between we rented had cockroaches everywhere, we complained not much was done - we had insect exterminators come to do the whole house before i was going to pack anything for our new home which is close to our son and his family. Hugs and blessings Jenn. Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/6/2021 6:51:00 PM You had insect exterminators come? Why? I just pick up a few stray cats and turn 'em loose. lol. ~ Cat Burglar Season's best, Jenn!

Caren Krutsinger Date: 12/5/2021 1:48:00 AM Oh, man, your first apartment was sure a place I would want to visit. Snicker. Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/6/2021 6:34:00 PM Hey, hey, Caren. It's as advertised: No windows to break. (They're already all broken).

Tom Cunningham Date: 12/4/2021 11:21:00 PM You weren't alone Gershon we all started at the bottom lol. Tom Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/6/2021 6:09:00 PM Some start at the bottom and rise... others start at the bottom and fall even lower somehow... lol.

Valsa George Date: 12/4/2021 7:35:00 PM "As the trains would roar by my dad's dentures would clack'"...... Ha... Ha ! This is too good ! I love your 'home sweet home' ! Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/4/2021 8:02:00 PM A little ashamed of myself now. My sisters and I used to sing silly songs to the click-clack of my dad's denture. Oh, did he ever get mad... He'd chase use all over the place, and when he caught us, boy did we feel the wrath of his right hand on our poor little bottoms. ~ Still smiling, gw

L Milton Hankins Date: 12/4/2021 7:03:00 PM Hmmm...I do catch some glimpses of inspiration here, gw. Surely it couldn't have been that bad! But, maybe, it was...you seem to've survived with all your wit intact! Login to Reply Gershon Wolf Date: 12/4/2021 7:12:00 PM The only way to deal with those kind of places is with a sense of humor... No serious damage to me. We were out of there -- and in a nice house! -- before I was 10. So, lucky me.