there are places i remember

all day,
i've been singing the beatles song
there are places i remember
i'm not sure why
but i just can't get it out of my head

but it got me thinking
there are places i remember
some good memories
some bad memories
some indifferent memories

some have gone through changes

but i know for sure
the place i am right now
has not changed a bit
the place that i am right now
the place i live
is just as ghetto as it was
three years ago when i first moved in

at first,
the ghettoness of this apartment complex
hid itself very well
with the neatly kept lawns,
the beautiful brick buildings,
the cute names of the streets,
the nice pools,
and the amazingly priced living
sure did keep me thinking i was getting a deal
but then the sun went down,
and i learned quickly exactly why the price was as "great" as it was!

then the ghettoness began to slowly creep out
the booze bottles in the parking lot
the leftover chicken bones on the stairs
the weed smoking right outside my door
the dirty clothes left outside
the stray cats eating out of trash bags
the repo truck circling the parking lot daily
oh yeah--you can be jealous!

but....
the ghettoness hit an all time HIGH
when flake and i arrived home on new years day
it was a cold, foggy morning.
it was the kind of morning that you just want to get back in bed
as we walked up to the stairs
there it was
a pile of vomit
i was totally disgusted
yet, i stepped over it
and headed up the stairs
halfway of the stairs
another huge pile of vomit
(clearly from the same vomiter....being that the color remained consistent)
i nearly added to the pile
but kept myself together
and continued up the stairs
until we got to the top
and found the best, most awesome pile of vomit i've ever seen,
right in front of our front door!
oh yes, if you weren't jealous before,
i know you are now!

and to add insult to injury,
or ghetto to ghettoness
i called the apartment complex to report my find
they said
"well, the maintenance men don't return until monday,
we will put in your request,
so you should see it clean by tuesday, or wednesday"

oh yes, there are places i remember
all my life
though some have changed,
and i guess if i think about it hard enough
this place has too....
it has gotten even more ghetto than i ever thought it could!

awesome!