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Home-The Ghetto

By hannah28

Tue, 28 Sep 2004
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Ghetto

It's nicknamed the ghetto
by those better off,
the name
in my mind fits
with its twisted curl
of homes
joined like
the two sectioned rabbit hutch
the matching,
warren of footpaths
like capillaries
through a finger tip

Certificate U
Autobiography
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