Do you know that residue resides within the walls?
Residual memories of occupants before
before you
before them
before
A U-Haul pulls up to the front
the man jumps out only to rip and toss the "FOR RENT" sign out into the middle of the road
A sigh escapes from the foundation below his feet.
AH YES another family feasted upon and spit out.
The family, a few short months prior, moved in
a spring to their step
a faint glimmer to the eye of what?
Hope
a fresh start?
Yet they didn't know
they didn't know
They didn't know the family before whose children played within its walls gazing through the glass wanting to play out
fresh air
sunshine
yet no - the mother lay within, a heart disease, unable to make the journey of the staircase to escape asbestos and mold
Little boy waves to me with large eyes and pale flesh from the top floor window.
They didn't know that not long before they moved in the mother collapsed and perished as her children watched from down the hall.
Ambulance Screaming, for them, down the road because they were unable to Scream for themselves.
Family moves in - 4 children, mom, dad, yet the walls whisper to then overcompensate.
The children are taken outside to remain until allowed back within its folds.
While the Screams inside now manifest.
BITCH YOU WILL....
the sound of glass
A SLAP
and yes... a siren
Wailing up to the opening of its dark mouth
Wailing for the children that can't
Yes - Residual memories of Occupants before
a FOR RENT sign should have flyers compared to that of a CARFAX
FOR RENT
enter at your own risk
can occupy a family of 4, yet holds millions.
