I am in love with Baltimore, but I am not happy with her.
Her divisions are too sharp, her walls too high.
Her blocks are too segregated and there is too little cross-over.
Her people are too unaware, and too comfortable.
She is letting big business and the elite have their way with her.
She doesn't know how beautiful she really is.
No one tells her.
She is hiding her true face beneath a veil that is too easy to lift
for us to have not done so yet.
All we have to do is walk far on her streets,
wander deep into her clusters of buildings and people.
Her veil, her high walls, her mystery and ugly mask
are all gone
as soon as you believe they are,
and act like they are.
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