In September the year goes brown at the edges
and rows of blue shipping containers multiply
on the back lot at Walmart, full of faux xmas trees
and sets of matching pajamas, tin foil roasting pans
for the holiday meat no one can afford, a veritable
village of boxcars, I've heard they could solve the
housing crisis with a proper outfitting, or without,
depending on how it all goes down, there’s no
running water at Alligator Alcatraz, after all, and
clearly we have train cars enough for everyone.
boxcars
One response to “boxcars”
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Ah, yes, container houses — an option Tom and I have discussed, were we to find a plot of land we wanted to call home. For now, we will settle for the homestead someone else built in 1960. It will do.
I heard an anecdote about someone in the Ville wanting to build a container home, and they got, of course, a blue ton of blowback from all the usual sources. As far as I know it didn’t happen. This is why we can’t have nice things, it just figures, etc. …
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