Memphis Pornification

memphis pornification

living in

a bluff city bluff,

left with nothing,

just another past

city beautiful

trying to stand tall

pulled by urban sprawl.

commercial investment influx

juxtaposed next to ruin.

boarded up overgrown reflux,

memphis pornification

washes down river

in bluesy facade.

shutter,

can’t turn eyes away

from insta porn

worse than detroit city,

rivaling chiraq shit

left in ruin.

plucking crow

as blackbirds sing

gentrification lies

dropped in,

took a look around

hightailed it out of town

fast as summer grass

grows. vines twisted

in vacant copperless houses,

blocks and blocks,

rows and rows,

blight pockets,

all over river city,

it flows!

uh-merica?

define crime

and punishment, living

thriving on mean streets

depressed in

memphis pornification.