For foreign readers, mobile homes are large trailers that are usually put on permanent foundations and serve as houses for families.
Downward Mobility
Why are so many mobile homes
so sad and stationary,
just marking time and losing ground?
Not so much the ones gathered
in neighborhoods, defiant tornado
targets with small gardens
and backyard pools,
but the solitary ones
abandoned along country
roads, like junked cars
that ran out of gas between here
and there,
old dream cars now
not worth the towing.
Downward Mobility
Why are so many mobile homes
so sad and stationary,
just marking time and losing ground?
Not so much the ones gathered
in neighborhoods, defiant tornado
targets with small gardens
and backyard pools,
but the solitary ones
abandoned along country
roads, like junked cars
that ran out of gas between here
and there,
old dream cars now
not worth the towing.
I would like this poem to be more of an observation and speculation than a question. It could really go somewhere.
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