The Accursed House

Can a house be cursed? On
this street neighbours have known
each other for decades, good
people or not, and that house has
never subscribed to the social
covenant of being a home, it 
seems, for it has been sold and
serially occupied so many times
each episode culminating in
marriage collapse, with children
undergoing the trauma of confused
loyalties and now, the neighbours
are once again whispering,
confiding, conspiring to compassion
and a shared regret at yet another
replay where discreet shuffling
of absence and presence sees a
distracted mother coping with 
career and children, grandparents
in constant appearance, father of
those children, a ne'er-do-well
dandy is free now to pursue other
interests, though he will pine
for days when life was less
complicated; his children, boys
all three, available for play.