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Lit Youngstown

Ode to Our Zip Codes

Updated: Nov 6


With thanks to the cool cool O Miami for the ode to the zip code idea, visitors to our booth wrote their our own zip odes at the Summer Festival of the Arts.




4 Shops and restaurants galore

4 Something for everyone here

5 Lawns are manicured, people walk

1 dogs

2 in Boardman


4 I’m in a township

4 with my six chickens

5 I have the best neighbors

1 everyone

4 on a cut-through street


4 I live here always

4 since I was born

4 in the same house

7 white, small, big comfy porch, small kitties

1 home


4 This is my ode

4 to my zip code

4 place where I live

4 and I like my

2 two cats


4 I love Lake Milton

4 We have lots of seagulls

4 Best neighbors on street

2 Happy home

9 Our home is a family legacy in the community


4 Home sweet home again

4 new and old together

5 smells, familiar, cozy, crazy, ride

1 sweet

2 surprise us


4 My gift of life

4 sometimes delight or not

5 often bright and cheerful too

1 maybe

1 both


4 West and South Side

4 Youngstown is the best

5 We are so full of pride

1 No

1 Contest



4 Outside above my skylight

4 the leaves glitter gold

5 as long as sun shines

0

5 Oh darn, it’s cloudy today


1 My

6 house is on the corner of

1 a

5 lovely place you can visit!

0


4 Tomatoes in the sun

4 the old piano creaks.

4 My dog and me.

2 I’m home.

0


4 I love my home

4 God has truly blessed

4 our family. To live

4 in our lovely house,

6 with my family, we will grow.


4 Woods, country, deer, frogs

4 peace, crickets, trees, grass

4 birds, quiet, cool, dark

0

1 nice


4 Not my forever place

4 it's ok for now

4 one day the beach

0

6 I do love the corn fields


1 Look

6 for the helpers when overcome by

1 hate

5 for without love you have

0


4 The sun is shining

4 it is really hot

4 it's time to go

4 but I'm still writing

6 Enjoy the rest of the summer!


4 Within my zip code

4 all voices are represented.

5 You need not look far.

1 Community

2 is everywhere.


4 Our neighborhood is rad

4 it's good, not bad

4 friendly faces all around

3 Love this township

8 a place our small family can grow together


4 A green to grow

4 lay to watch clouds

4 listen to the music

0

6 Beside the gazebo our historic center


4 Empty yards fill with

4 weeds, woodchucks, wrens & wonder

5 decaying mattresses and wild cats

1 abound.

0


4 Not exactly West Side

4 but also not Canfield

5 smack dab in the middle

1 uniquely

1 Austintown


4 In spring the lindens

4 perfume the walk, my

5 neighbors come out for armfuls

0

4 of lilacs. Hello. Hello.






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