sense of these conflicting worlds that geographically aren't that very far from each other. >> kyle darganrew up in newark, new jersey with working parents determined he would escape a deteriorating city and make something of himself. but echoes of the inner city still resonate when dargan walks through his new neighborhood in southeast dc. >> isn't your neighborhood more or less in the shadows of the capital? >> i think realtors want people to think that, but actually, we're on the other side of the anacostia river. actually, my neighborhood now, i saw it listed somewhere on a real estate website as capitol hill east. and i'm like, "that's a bit of a stretch," you know, if benning heights was on the other side of the city, it would be palisades. you know, it would be georgetown. i mean, beautiful houses, beautiful view, but you know, you're on the other side of the anacostia. it's not perceived the same way. you know, people live one way on one side of the anacostia river and another way on the other side. >> there's a line in the poem that says "where the rues beyond our doors were the s