Summer in the 'Hood

This morning while I hung out the clothes to dry three neighborhood five-year-olds discovered a broken cellar window on the tenement next door. They found cinder blocks and a brick holding up the dismantled basketball hoop and began chucking them through the missing window pane. I went over and asked them to stop. When I turned around a man was going through our recycling trash for returnable cans and bottles, emptying the cardboard and paper onto the street. Now there's three kids in a blow up pool in front of the tenement across the street having fun splashing each other while they are sitting waist high in cold water. Summer in the 'hood.