Hometown

ERIC DAVID LOUGH

Do you think they’ll name

a street after me

in my hometown?

I really don’t care if they

do or not—

I hated that fucking place.

Look,

he used to live here,

I knew him.

Weathered buildings

going out of business

cold

heartless people

bar on every corner

(which was the only

good thing)

street parades that

symbolized nothing.

He was just a lonesome

burnout.

Yeah,

I knew him.

I live on his street,

right there

third house on the left,

the one with the

broken-down

Mustang

in the front yard.

That motherfucker

still owes me

20 bucks.

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