Building a New Chicago

Building a New Chicago
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Photo Credit: Arvell Dorsey Jr.

The bar on the corner
of Lawrence and Kimball
plays muted Soul Train videos
on vertical flatscreen televisions.

Dancers’ limbs wobble,
distorted by the sideways slant,
threatening to snap like rubber
bands and disappear from view.

Piped in through the overhead
speakers, an indy jazz / neofolk band

The old familiar lost among the gentry