Headframes hold their wheels above shafts that flooded
Conveyor belts sag toward piles no truck will load
Blast furnaces cool in shadows where men once sweated
Coal dust settles on lockers whose doors hang open
Transformers buzz for grids that stopped drawing power
Smokestacks stain the sky above towns that stopped paying
Freight elevators wait between floors that no one calls
Riveted tanks hold rain instead of the oil they were built for
Shift whistles hang silent in offices stripped of clocks
Slag heaps grow grass over roads the mine once used
