Ghost Neighborhoods - Edit

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Ghost Neighborhoods


Japan:
not worth tearing down
meticulously built
tenantless apartments
rural villages
of empty houses
souls departed
children unconceived


China:
skyscrapers glare down
eight-lane highways
empty, empty, empty
blocks of shoddy flats
dilapidate near nowhere
dissipating savings
ownership denied

villages of empty houses
urban swaths
of apartment buildings
without tenants
lightly but meticulously built
not worth tearing down
souls departed
vanished with
children unconceived:
Japan


glaring skyscrapers
blocks of residential houses
eight-lane highways
empty, empty, empty
up close shoddy-made decayed
built near nowhere to
defraud a people of
their savings with vain hopes
of ownership denied:
China

This should probably go in Miscellaneous, being political-economic-cultural-current events, but what do our critics suggest?