Where I come from Poem

Where are you from?

Chicago

but no, not really

I live in a house with a jungle gym and patio in the backyard 

In a neighborhood with block parties 

with neighbors that know each other far too well

with kids in the summertime outside past dark

with no pointed gates and bolted doors

no bright lights at night

nothing but stars and branches in the pitch black sky 

It's a suburb just north of Chicago

but no its not a typical suburb

it is not an enclosed community

the neighborhoods are connected by a crossword of roads

with blocks of houses-- each house drastically unique (expand? shack, bungle, mansion)

then theres downtown

with all of the big-name stores and restaurants 

and people everywhere

Isn't that where Northwestern is?

yes, but its not a typical college town.

The wildcats are incorporated into this community 

already rich in sports, arts, music, business and 

more

You want to know where I'm from?

go there, grow up there

plant your roots into its soil like the pine tree that towers over my house

no words can describe it, theres nowhere like it

I'm from Evanston and

theres no place like home