“When good people die they become worms in Detroit,” they
say.
“When bad people die they go to Hamtramck just as they are.”
It is all right to mock it, but some are exalted: they
have escaped to the cities from the bad-lands to the south
and see them as their Edens found, with Eves and the fruits
and shelter under iron trees. They have had a hard life
as draught animals, and are here to try out human life,
temptations first. They are walled away from their wilderness
by absence in stone and iron, the way Hamtramck is walled
by Detroit, city in city, cement in cement, and seed in shell.
Greater Detroit is what has grown around the ones who have
Hamtramck or nothing as a preview of a concrete flower to
come.
Accommodation to Detroit
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