Tenement Town

The places we tenement dwellers live in have been home to all those people; men and women who were here and have now gone, just as we’ll be gone someday, replaced by someone else. That might seem a melancholy idea, but I take comfort from the thought of us all handing on these places to each other, down through the decades and centuries. Because that chain of people is permanent, even if each link on it is temporary.