Pursuit

What breaks this away,
sending dust and sparks
and whatever, rivets
cascading, falling,
I don't have some ideas.
We are scavengers
a remnant
living in an ever deeper
soiled temple complex,
names and local lore giving way to
geographically neutral designators
or at least that's how it felt,
the cranes and steel frames seeming so rare
and hardly missed.
Bones of Detroit, and all that,
but that's not our point
and we aren't looking back or
spiteful or whatever they
the eternal
say,
if you can manage a smile
even just to be polite.
Some revisions were needed,
is the company line,
they're drinking in the corner
to forget their vocabulary
and the very concept of
proper nouns,
from now on
improper.
Society and its functions,
et cetera,
the realm of
science and its betrothed,
mostly boil down to warmth.
That's water and fire,
if we revert to the
elemental
and we just did.
The questions
we just added later
to add some weight to
the answers,
asterisked in the original.
The pursuit
is a dowry you don't need to pay,
God willing,
but I wouldn't count on that.