All the clubs we used to go to are gone:
The Horny Unicorn
The French Rejection
Firm Britches and Drunken Pony.
The restaurants we loved
have changed, too.
Tender Pi is now Graham Cracker Station
while Jack’s House of Meats
is now DBA – Formerly Jack’s House of Meats.

The neighborhood is all different
barely recognizable
even from last year.
Transitions are everywhere
and it’s hard see what once was.

And you’re not here to see it
just another one of the revisions
to this poor town
abandoning its past
every day
a little bit more.