Ghost Neighborhoods - Edit

[busker]

Ghost Neighborhoods


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?

This should probably be in miscellaneous as there isn’t an attempt at poetic craft here in my view, just a political statement. Good for discussion, but I don’t see the value in workshopping this one.