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The Rotting Corpse

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WP Daily Prompt: How would you improve your community?

 

The Community I live in died in the mid-90’s I mean nothing has changed here since then. It looks exactly the same as it did when it was ‘updated’   over 30  years ago.

It’s cultural center is a Walmart Super Store .

There was a business owner who went on social media and said he’d shoot protesters at a March put on by a local high school ( which by the way was cleared by the City and Law Enforcement )  during the Black Lives Matter rallies and marches and he actually drummed up business on his threat to murder any Marcher who did as much as look at his windows.

I was happy when his business tanked during Covid. Too bad all those people who ‘yee hawed’ him didn’t help him out in his time of need, right? Other ‘family restaurants survived in this area but not his. Boo effing hoo.

So with absolutely NO affection, I refer to it as ‘toilet town’ and the only way I could think of to improve its to give it a decent burial, erase it from Google Maps and never speak of it again.

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Invisible

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Daily Writing Prompt: How would you improve your community?

The Cripples
L. S. Lowry1949 – 1949

If I could do one thing to improve my community, I would find a way to make it possible for everyone to feel visible.

When you feel like you need a gun to be heard, when you are forced to dress as expected by the community  in order to participate in everyday life, when you need an app to feel connected to humanity, it’s like your wearing an iron mask and the only way to remove it is to agree to meet conditions.

Conditions I think, that come with a hefty price tag.

It’s a lonely life for some of us- even the ones who claim that they are loners and say they are fine with not seeing a single person for days or weeks at a time. But for others,  when you walk out into the world and you are positive that nobody, no a single soul sees you I guess  you will give in and give up just to have one person look at you and say, ” ah, there YOU are!”

We should be able to dress the way we want, we shouldn’t have to carry a big effing gun in order to be heard, we shouldn’t have to pick up our phone to feel connected to the world around us.

We shouldn’t  feel invisible.

We shouldn’t be invisible.

Making people feel visible is the one thing I wish I could do to improve my community.