Men of Steel
John Clare Stokes
by night the broken men
would sip within the cemetery
of Mann atop the hill overlooking
the dying town where once the
coal they said would never end
lamenting or celebrating
we never knew
we only knew that they were
up there
like the ravens in the trees
leaving their droppings
too poor to be buried atop
the cemetery of Mann
moving on come the dawn
into the hills and the hollers
living off the welfare dollars
high above the dying town.
On a hill in Bluefield, West Virginia is the Mann family cemetery where derelicts like the drink.
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