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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Freeman Avatar
January 17, 2010 at 8:42 AM
I agree, the answer is not in the complexity of the Harlot economics. Sincerely, Moses
Golden Avatar
February 3, 2009 at 9:49 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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February 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Timely piece here, Tom. Well done. Donna G.
Moreno Avatar
February 3, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Nice work Tom, I look forward to reading more of your work...Raul
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