Gentrification is when — Cathy Arellano

Poem by Cathy Arellano
Spike Lee on Gentrification of BedStuy
My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic!
—Spike Lee
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