The
old house on Oakland Avenue
has
been torn down, my brother told
me.
It was outdated by the standards
and
needs today. Reality is, over gen-
erations,
people and places change.
Three
bedrooms and a small bath,
seven
or eight-hundred square feet
of
living space are no longer consid-
ered
adequate for a family of five
like
mine 65-years ago. We were
labeled
middle class then, both
parents
raised during the Great De-
pression,
served in and lived through
World
War II. Both long gone now;
one
of three brothers passed as well.
And
as for me, going on seventy-three,
renting
an apartment space of I’d guess
three
hundred square feet or so, ade-
quate
enough for my needs. This gen-
eration
today hasn’t a clue what they
may
face when they get to a certain
age.
I know for sure what lies ahead of
me,
a few square inches of an unadorned
clay
urn. That's all the space I’ll need,
and
a hell of a lot cheaper to boot.
-30-
Chris
Hanch 1-20-2020
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