Spend a day or two in Kalamazoo and do nothing but drink coffee, do some writing and spend time with my friends, uninterrupted.
I also need to spend a few days in Waterford and do the exact same thing. Visit Detroit and find my way back to my roots.
Social media isn’t keeping me connected, anymore…if it ever really did.
You keep an open flame
around chemicals to ignite
hostility of the ill-will
just to start a fight
You fill your bags and pockets
with fine knives and deadly weapons
so that maybe one day you
can teach your parents a lesson
Forget the repercussions
we’ve got better seeds to sow
set fire to Detroit tonight
lets give this hood a show
Empty buildings, rotting pipe dreams
we dance on sunken ground
cheers to The Motor City!
the same vehicle who took us down
Omit the rich, fuck the poor
we all battle in this poverty war
brace yourself and pray to your lord
here’s a gun, now find the door
Detroit is a truly crazy place… i’ve been in a few of the abandoned places in the past… scary… some of these places have been decaying and ignored for longer than most of the people seeing these pics have been alive… if they ever get there shit together and reclaim the decay and repurpose into a vital new city things could really be great
‘100 Abandoned Houses’ by Kevin Bauman.
Abandoned houses in Detroit, Michigan. Once a city of almost 2 million citizens, Detroit has since lost over half its population over the last 60 years.
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The decay of the motor city.
What once glorified Detroit has catapulted it into it’s demise.
I don’t know what has me thinking about this abandoned city so much lately. I’m certainly not missing the hardness or depression that has sunken so deep in the eyes of the people who stay loyal to it’s burning embers. It’s just really sad but also fascinating how different the southeast and southwest quarters of michigan are…the community; the attitude. This is very refreshing when first getting acquainted with Grand Rapids, but as time goes on, the shock starts to fade away and you begin to remember that so much of it has to do with the economy. How will they turn Detroit around? Will they ever?
