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Joe Can'T Go Home Again

Joe Can’t Go Home Again By Elton Camp It’s an especially bad feeling Cherished memories stealing A place one’s lived most of his life Torn down is like the cut of a knife It isn’t possible anymore To enter a familiar door Rooms where a man has slept Are unworthy of being kept Only an empty lot to see Where home used to be Poor Joe watches with utter dismay As his long-time home is torn away His emotions it does assail Demolishing the County Jail

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013




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Date: 11/6/2013 4:22:00 PM
Reminds me of demolitions closer to home by mayor and corporation...of poor people's poor homes.
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Date: 11/6/2013 4:40:00 PM
There has been some of that in this area also.

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