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- Title: Stomping Ground (Essay)
- Author : Northwest Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
Description
I was nineteen in 1984 when I fell in love with a sprawling Victorian firetrap in Northwest Portland, Oregon. The address was 133 NW Eighteenth, near Davis, but it might as well have been 1313 Mockingbird Lane, home to the Munsters, it was that gorgeous and decrepit. The building had an ornate, cursive sign posted on the front porch: The Lawn. Housekeeping Rooms, Sitting Rooms, Furnished Apartments. I had no idea what a "housekeeping room" was. It sounded adorable. But the name, The Lawn, was either ironic or absurd. The building had no lawn. It took up most of a city block. It was painted an anemic yellow-green, the color of grass you'd find under a wading pool left in one spot too long. There were a few squares of dirt with daffodils bobbing near basement windows. Somebody had freehanded, in red paint on an old board, a more recent and less official sign, at knee level: Please leave the flowers so all may enjoy. Ohm, Peace, Shalom! A basement window was boarded over. There was a missive written on the plywood in black marker, jagged lines: Knock Before Noon and I Kill You. The words trailed off like somebody'd passed out. There was an empty quart of Bohemian, cheapest beer in town, on the ground.
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