“Ruin was rumoured to be rooming up the road
Where a neighbour’s barn’d burned down,
Their heyday a payday away,
Pride, Ruin’s bride-to-be, paced our property
in the long gowns of afternoons,
While ruin rode shotgun in Dad’s old Ford
and pulled the wheel hard toward cabarets.
Dad had work, but Ruin had ways.”
––Todd Boss: Ruin
Sleighton School, Glen Mills, PA, abandoned in 2001