Stray Thoughts:

Elaborate stone frontages presiding over old main street.

Vestiges of a bygone era.

Ornamentally denticulated surrogates of a grander time when community mattered.

Bastions standing together, shoulder to shoulder supporting one another.

Now the strain of time pulls down these city walls one brick and stone at a time.

Bulldozers remove the bodies of these once beautiful faces as the city itself mourns.

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