Detroit

DYING DETROIT
—for Barrett Watten

I

Detroit is dying
Poets demand limits

 II

Poets are tragedy queens 
Drearie dearie diarists

III

Detroit is a Dead Duck
The poets flee

VII

Detroit was the Big Three
It stood for Style

VIII

Worn out Theaters perish
Moonlight in the ruins

XVIII

Detroit ceases to exist
Design has lost its touch

XX

Dead cities lose information
Everyday words get lost

XXI

Detroit was an accident
Waiting to happen

XXII

A single style isn’t revolution
Even Cadillacs go outta style

XXIV

Henry Ford was a genuine 
Greedy Asshole Genius

XXV

Detroit buries its dead
Technology six feet under

XXVI

Technology was a church
But the choir flew the coop

 XXIX

Narrative leads to death
Readers are slave laborers

XXX

Parataxis prepares the way
Coincidence runs parallel

XXXI

The Big Three a false motif
Once it ruled Detroit USA

XXXII

Decay motivates construction
Intuition reconstructs itself again

XXXIII

The Boot on the Face
A New World Order style

XXXVI

Technology is falling apart
Just like the movie “Brazil”

XXVII

Technology in getting better
Just like the movie ”1984”

XXXVIII

Third Worlds are convincing
Just look at the ghost malls

XXXIX

Series stick to the Unexpected
Storylines synch in a chain

XLII

Style sinks into the sewer
The Third Man lives down there

XLIII

All the movie palaces vanish
All the classic hotels disappear

XLIV

Cadillacs used to be classy
Lincolns used to be Jacqueline

XLV

Indifference takes over
Ennui becomes lifestyle

XLVI

Progress loses perspective
Detroit becomes a relic

 XLVII

There are no Cities left
There’s No Escape From Detroit

XLVIII

Guttenberg breaks down
Print culture swansong

XLIX

Old narratives become static
Neo Narratives go Surréalisme

L

Writers try to disappear
But language won’t let them