OPTIMISTS, EAT THIS REALIST DUST
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sores on America black and blue,30-plus percent unemployment
in Indiana,
where American industry began and grew
into the biggest steelworks in the world -
where, for awhile,
canyons of molten metal ran wild,
like a planet forming new.
Did you know?
Gary, Indiana, Michael Jackson's
hometown,
served as the basis for the design
of Magnitogorsk -
Stalin's biggest steel town?
30-plus percent unemployment
in Indiana,
and don't forget California:
the state is broke and the specter grows
of hunger and a dust-bowl
in the valleys, where there's
30-plus percent unemployment.
Hope is low.