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Chicago
is telling me to take my time.
In
restaurants
the
food
comes
slow.
Some things are the same wherever you go.
The Edgewater neighborhood is
ethnically
and
economic-ally
mixed.
When a city is populated by immigrants,
it
grows
cosmopolitan.
Even so, there are signs of encroachment--
the showroom of scale model condo complex
with "mixed use" retail and
services below.
Mixed use is what the neighborhood already was,
do
we need another bleached
blonde
boob
job
strip
mall?
Yoga Now[!] and this painless periodontist,
where
the
accidental
background
of
spikes,
fangs,
and
angry
eyebrows
reveals
a
truth
buried
just
beneath
the
surface
trying
to
claw
its
way
out.
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