Poetry
Steel Exhilaration
Black asphalt or brick lain streets The Bayer sign erratic in the distance Baseball fans from the Park Groan In disbelief of another thrashing Running along the banks of The Point The account of battles past bleed in the soil Above, children bathe in the fountain Their parents Surveying The joyous soggy faces Aged city sidewalks carry the journeys Of busy people on their own itineraries The urban decay of this town Corrodes no one |
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