sleeping money decides when to redecorate the urban landsides

sleeping money decides when to redecorate the urban landsides

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


Where I live there are a lot of empty buildings that once housed booming businesses, businesses that employed local workers and were an important end destination to citizens living there about. Now the empty buildings slowly decompose and fade every year becoming further devalued on the local taxing jurisdiction's tax assessment registers.

Along the railroad tracks in the towns of Youngstown, Ravenna and Akron in Ohio huge long weather beaten ancient dark buildings line the railroad tracks running from Baltimore toward Chicago obsolete in use but silently waiting for sleeping money to decide when to redecorate the urban landscapes with their destruction.

 Buildings that once helped bring about flight, helped win two World Wars, helped America race into space slowly decompose in the evening sun.

Once entrepreneurial capitalists rode into Youngstown, Ravenna and Akron on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and eagerly surveyed urban landscapes with an eye to profits and calculated return on investment and equity looking for places to build their new manufacturing factories.

As jet planes fly from Baltimore to Chicago at four hundred miles per hour, when will sleeping money glance down at the obsolete buildings along the railroad tracks in Youngstown, Ravenna and Akron, imagine new productive uses for the empty dark buildings lining the urban landsides in Ohio.