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[bodytext] => Michigan is like a ship upon the Great Lakes The Lower Peninsula her stern And the Upper forms her bow The shape of the land her hull Sails made of leaves Flap from her stern the trees The rudder is her people Steering beneath the Northern Lights And tied to her bottom is the anchor…. The city of Detroit Holding her safely in place Or dragging her slowly down The ship will sail on despite its sore hip Lingering spirits, the slums, and ghettoes Remind us that beauty can be undressed Left naked and unattended she becomes a festering rot Her skin grows tired and sags to the bones Her hair become tattered a mess on a skull She becomes a whore…. Not the mother we know Assembly lines of factory dreams Built one piece at a time Chicago money runs up the west side While Detroit dreary sinks on the east Downtown torment decayed by white retreat Ford is a century that has passed Carrying its weight to cities like Flint and Saginaw A past, a boom, a fire burned to gloom Its workers and unions left in the wake No hurricane hit…. But the city devastates Slipping and falling in the cracks of neglect She represents the ugly we care to forget But she is there like a lingering cancer With no cure; a question without an answer Going nowhere she is ours to repair A kingdom of sorrow a crown we all share For history is a blanket in a sea of storms Hiding our flaws or keeping us warm And what is sad is not her current state Her only anguish is…. That she could have been great [comments] => 1 [counter] => 143 [topic] => 43 [informant] => zedwards [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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