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City of Detroit
Contributed by
zedwards
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Friday, 5th February 2010 @ 08:24:52 AM in AEST
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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
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Re: City of Detroit
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by Former_Member on
Friday, 5th February 2010 @ 08:59:17 AM AEST
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It shows there was much effort
put forth with passion and pride
beauty is a strange entity
it runs all through this passage
the depiction of the city
and all it's natural inhabitance
deeply moving in a wonderful way
reality is truth and that's beautiful
an honorable post
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