Some Manchester

"Manchester in a poem, from industry, to the destruction and rebirth, where history is washed away.

Transistors did clash
Through ones and zeros
From thermionic heat to
Compute through brick
Spires and forgotten mills
and putrid
Whistles and punched faced
cards
Crash!
from the unforgiving
Managed trash
only to be
Sold down that Medlock
To emerge
Through troubled 
Culture to produce that
hacienda excess to some
striped factory floor
Producing that firework for
the world to become just a 
blue plaque
To high rise ideas
where
Misguided Discarded
Manufactured
Memories
are forged into Living spaces
for those
who spicerly dissaprove
of this and that
Noisy past
To this now where
What?
To the next when
Where?
Manchester has and
always will
Become"

Cathedral Gardens water feature reimagined by Jonathan Ogara.