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Our Smoldering Factory Town

Our Smoldering Factory Town free trade, a brick around It’s gurgling, swollen neck. Surrounding gray quiet smolder, evokes, Once thriving factory smoke A Crumbling horoscope once paid it's worker's, soaked in quiet desperation. We are it's rusty antiques sinking ships on outsourced seas a swollen, bailout casualty a fallow field, a dustbowl breeze While children sew our sneakers In bananna sweatshops, cheaper hands can make, children's fate wont matter, they'll dig deeper.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 1/17/2010 8:42:00 AM
I agree, the answer is not in the complexity of the Harlot economics. Sincerely, Moses
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Date: 2/3/2009 9:49:00 PM
Minimalist. :-) All my poems aren't all as short as that. I've been messing around with a form I just learned. Yes, I know...very simple. Fun, though. DG
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Date: 2/3/2009 9:24:00 PM
Timely piece here, Tom. Well done. Donna G.
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Date: 2/3/2009 9:08:00 PM
Nice work Tom, I look forward to reading more of your work...Raul
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