What Is Detroit

poem by: Dan Miltz
Written on Apr 01, 2018

It's the Motor City 
Motor Capital of the World
Fordtown 
Motown
Hockeytown

It's lying in shards
Like olden Rome 
Love among the ruins 
With an abrasive outside layer
Of exhaust looks and horrendous faces 

It's Rock City
Automobile City
Arsenal of Democracy  
Big D
City of Straits
 
It's a rough, tumble, sports purgatory
Joe Louis pondering
Gordie Howe wondering
Ty Cobb mad as hell
Joe Schmidt praying

What are they yet 
Lords of dust 
And their inscriptions 
However characters 
Written in the clean

Desolated by time 
Ambushed by flicker
And apparitions of the past 
What was at one time, a magnificent sanctuary 
Standing glad and solid

Detroit, Detroit 
Yesterday is still today
And it's tomorrow, as of now 
I adore you still, hi and farewell 
The Lords of Detroit, looking down

© daniel miltz

 

Tags: Wishful, Pain, Depressing, Anger, Sad,

 

 

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