A memento

[alonso ramoran]

1
Rambling under tawny sun, down out into Solid opener. Tawny sun is interesting. It makes me think of autumn, but then comes "timeless summer". Maybe this is late summer?
nothingness as they scream and laugh and shove
each and every day throughout the timeless summer. 
My neighbor kids: they weren't always a joy but they Neighbor's kids? Neighbor kids doesn't sound natural b/c I don't hear it used commonly
were always—

(always) there. I'm trying to understand the purpose of the words in parentheses throughout the poem. I think t could be more effective to rewrite this line as "were always there".

2 This poem has two parts
You're eating nails and plaster. 
I get it, I am too: Interesting characterization. It makes me wonder who exactly is the N and who they are addressing. Are they kids?
Alice reads the letter they sent her;
red paper, black ink,
fired. Like so many others
we know. And our neighbors— "my neighbors" becomes "our neighbors". Maybe the second part of the poem comes with a new living situation for the N?
(oh) 
the worst magic trick ever
discovered, they made our neighbors—
(no) 
they made our neighbors 
disappear and—

don't forget that, 
but—
nothing has,
please—
nothing ever has,
(nothing's changed) The parentheses are probably not needed. But it's a nice ending that kind of reflects the ending of the poem's first part with the neighbor's kids always playing.

What I get from this poem is that multiple families lost their sources of income in this neighborhood, causing a lot of them to move away with their children. I don't see much describing a physical memento, but maybe the memento is simply the memory of these neighbors that the N is left with of the kids always playing in what I think is a yard.

Thank you for sharing,
Alex