Introducing...

Get Cranked
By Saxton Mills © copyright
A Coffeedreamz Ink Exclusive

Crank. Crank. Crank. Crank. Crank.
Do you hear that?
It’s the sound of the city.
The inner city. Urban City. The ghetto if someone had to put a name to it.

There is reconstruction going on.
And I’m not talking about reconstruction after the Civil War.
The Reconstruction of modernity
Where the people who currently live here are going to be pushed out
Placed somewhere else
In an environment where they’ll have to start all over.
Starting over is not re-facing what’s already been defaced.
But replaced in a a property they won’t own
or living in even if they can’t afford it.

Do you hear that?
It’s the sound of the city.
It’s the sound of change.
The Chocolate City.
Can you dig it?
They did

And now there’s
An employment services building
Being erected honoring somebody's name you can’t pronounce.
And the line of people waiting to get in…
Well…they are taking your spot because
Their pride is not shot
And when their check is deposited, it’s to build a
Future for them to crank out for the next generation.

So get crunk if you choose and listen for the crank
In the distance.

Ding. Dong. Doors closing.