Gerald Alan Ney

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Gentrification, A Quandary 08/05-06/2018

["The Schumpeterians have all along gloried in capitalism's endless creativity while treating the destructiveness as mostly a matter of the normal costs of doing business." - Social Geographer David Harvey on Creative Destruction] [Lk 15:22-23]

Ebb and flow, The places of man, A limited span In form and presence.

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Expansion, contraction, Arriving, birthing, Leaving, dying, All wind in the grass.

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The forgotten remembered, It, for its nature, Them, removable fixtures, Renew for me, not thee.

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Use artist and chef, Lease till comes its rise

Instruments to cleanse Out them, unwanted others.

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The price in lives... Who shall pay? But Lazararus shall have his day In the final court.

         - Gerald Alan Ney