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portland oregon |
gentrification and compost a spring seldom shines in portland mostly rain for the roots for weeks straight it rains and the hipsters wear waterproof jackets and goulashes and pale skin and the moss covers most things here the streets smell like coffee, thai, cloves, american spirit old books, youth the cars move quietly along dogs on leashes cats in the windows expired volkswagon buses faded brown blue green driving in circles to work and back home like bees to the flower to the hive skinny boys and girls with tattoos of zippers or fish or words dying of drugs living on drips of vigilante art i saw a mountain so white it wasn't there |