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An elderly man in a green jacket and beanie walks down a rundown alleyway with weathered wooden shacks.

An elderly man in a green jacket and beanie walks down a rundown alleyway with weathered wooden shacks.

When I was younger it was plain to me I must make something of myself. Older now I walk back streets admiring the houses of the very poor: roof out of line with sides the yards cluttered with old chicken wire, ashes, furniture gone wrong; the fences and outhouses built of barrel staves and parts of boxes, all, if I am fortunate, smeared a bluish green that properly weathered pleases me best of all colors. No one will believe this of vast import to the nation. Ver mais