Robin Fine is Waiting 4 the Bus +Open Mic

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in a special event Robin Fine kicks off her birthday week with a super feature

special guest host Jenene Ravesloot and Tom Roby IV moderate this poetic circus
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Poem 30

Downtown

Gentrification

And "a safe place to visit"

We're the suggested phrases for this poem

They bilked this city

Standing in the overwhelming gray of a Chicago downtown

In those few remaining crevices populated by pawn shops and blues bars

They talk about excellent school systems and the damn bicycles

It's all become gentrified economics

It's all become a matter of hiding the bodies and complaining about the potholes

And we still close our eyes to the homeless shadows

The winos and freaks and children on the fringes

They're aren't on the news anymore

And the commuters come and go

Nodding and smiling and catching the train

And they all agree tat it's fine to work there

It's a safe place to visit

But there's too much of

We'll to much of that atmosphere that lowers property values

And you wouldn't want to live there.