Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sunday poetry
fall out
they are closing the auto plants
out here in California
but a major company is promising
employment to laid-off workers
who will transfer to an Oklahoma
plant
travel expenses
paid.
so now
many of the families are
making the trek
in long caravans of cars
full of children and
possessions
just as in the 30's
their elders had come here
from Oklahoma
in the same way
now they're going back
to Oklahoma
with California accents
Grandchildren of the
Dust Bowl
because Japanese cars are
smaller, cheaper,
better
it's like a little bit of
Hiroshima
in return
or a Japanese horror
movie
with an all-American
cast.
~ Charles Bukowski, War All the Time: Poems 1981-1984
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