Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Detroit Pump

https://youtu.be/VR7r9bBRVi0 
docu about 7-mile as "one of America's most dangerous no-go-zones"

blocks and blocks
into the dusty brown horizon
the rot and rust of industrial extinction
because oil does not grow on trees
but is dug and exhumed

steam billowing out from gaps in the floor
like a post-apocalyptic dream
like hell is boiling to the surface
in a synchronised ascent
through vents and man-hole covers

all the way down
those neo-imperialist straight edged roman roads
from here to forever
like silver smoke stacks
in the night time glare electric

drifting ground level chimneys
slowly slanting with the wind
sombre and looming
like fog across the ghost town wreckage
of skeletal porches

burnt out one halloween cremation night
by delinquent lights
and the strokes of torches
just to see it go up in smoke
and fill the 7-mile skyline

 






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