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Big boxy houses far ahead of your
time; unabashed ugliness forsages
a new retail style - the big boxy store -
much later.
Mass-produced dwellings, blank pages
in a library full of dreamers' books
whose lives imprint their hopes upon the walls
with landed gentry fantasies; "let's look
like we belong," they whisper in these halls
of wall-to-wall polyester.
My Dad
sold out our big, draughty old-timer house
for two floors of newer wallpaper-clad
Burnaby mediocrity. Thus roused
from comfort, I fled the new family scheme,
searching ever since for a self-made dream.
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