It's just how it is.
Sorry.
Condemned,
like a building no longer fit
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GREAT POEM BEN This is my favorite part of your poem: When I was a child, we always thought such houses to be haunted. Maybe our young selves heard an echo of some truth; that a haunting was coming.
Ben No More poetic language than some of your others, but with that same stoic storyteller sense to it. -chuck