A Brick

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Justification

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It always seemed inevitable that the little house was doomed
Vines cascading over its face
Garbage bins permanently pushed up against the front door
Cream-colored metal siding on the raised main floor warped and pitted
A lonely leftover of its kind
Neighbors replaced by newer buildings many times over
Nobody left to care for what was left there

The very last man to live here left reminders of himself
LB made crude metal cutouts in whimsical shapes of rockets and planets
Affixed to the tall front fence by barbed wire
He was afraid of his surroundings
But he held onto the house until he physically couldn't
And it sat empty when he left
Nobody left to care for what he left there

On a Friday in the fall
The inevitable fulfilled
A decade after vacancy and seven months after LB died
His little house left us, too
One of the oldest in the city
It was too far gone
Crews came to wreck it as soon as they had a demolition permit
Nobody left to care for what was left there

I came by to pay my respects to a man I'd never met and the home he inhabited
Both subsumed
The little house a pile of rubble
Ornate rotting wood window frames, tin siding, asbestos
I took some tools with me
Hoping to save LB's rockets and planets from the fence
Couldn't get them off, fused onto barbed wire by rust
I took a brick from the pile and headed home
Nobody left to care for what I left there

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