Outsider's Perspective

A poem I wrote in 2017 that was a love-hate letter to my hometown of Baltimore City. Since despite feeling like an outsider at times, I love it enough that I'm not going anywhere.

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There on any US atlas, east 
of all the quintessential states 
is the compact phenomenon Maryland. 
There on any Maryland map, east 
of all the extravagant of the extravagant cities 
is the bustling Martyr Washington D.C. 
There in only a Baltimorean’s mindset, moored 
on the asscrack of the marvel irregularity 
is …