Moe Lane [High Praise!] wrote the perfect Detroit-based parody of W.B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming“. It begins:
Deeper and deeper in its gathered regret
The city cannot bear its crushing debt;
Things fall apart; Blue Models cannot stand;
Smith’s virtuous Fist is loosed upon the land,
The bankruptcy is loosed, and everywhere
The solvency of proud Detroit is drowned;
The Left lacked all competence, while the Right
Was kept away, per standard policy.
More at Moe Lane.
Roses are red. Violets are blue. Detroit is f**ked…how ’bout you? Yeah, I know, it’s not as sophisticated as Yeats nor as artistic, but it’s straight to the point and cut’s right to the chase..