Erection

BY STEVIE REDWOOD.

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​Get it
all the way up
yr thick wood
bones for
new rich homes
swelling inside
an orgy of scaffolding
dark virgin veil
shrouding the pipes
all the way up
& around city code
thru a dense bonus hole
looped into legislation
You want all this
someone’s gotta pay
How many sweaty men
does it take to screw in
the final nail
of a community coffin
monuments to beautification
rising all around
what used to be
a neighborhood
What goes up
must come
down
a lie gravity tells
on behalf of market economics
What goes up
must come down
hard
on other people
What goes up
must go up
again
& again
& again
Let’s keep haggling
over semantics
You say get it up
I say get down
You say seesaw
I say teeter-totter-
ing at the edge of dispossession
You say Yes In My Backyard
I say primitive accumulation
You say tomato
I say chuck it at the condos
What else
goes up
with new home bones:
graffiti
barbed wire
security bots
signage
OPEN HOUSE
PRIVATE PROPERTY
NO LOITERING
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
effigy of a realtor
assets of a house flipper
Zillow net worth
honeybear window decals
market rate
911 calls
evictions
tag on a neighborhood coffee
area median income
down payments
down jackets
subscriptions
to the New York Times
in my building
I run to catch the elevator
there’s a woman
I don’t know--
Going down?
she blinks
says We’re on the ground
There’s nowhere to go
but up
Who
is going
to tell her

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stevie redwood is a disabled toisanese jewish neuroinsurgent introvert homotrash littledreamer bigmouth bitch living & dying in frisco. they’re unimpressed by scene queers, artifice, & pacifism. they’re fond of shittalk, porchsitting, leaflitter, & riffraff. they dream a different end of the world.​ you can follow them on instagram @homotrashittalker.