Assembly Line Hymns
Poems from thirty-four years on the line at a Detroit car plant.
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Walter Greene wrote these poems on the backs of work orders, in lunch pails and on break-room napkins between 1978 and 2012. They are about shift whistles, union halls, Sunday mornings, a marriage, a city that kept getting counted out, and the men and women who built cars with their hands and still had something left to say at the end of the day.
The whistle is not for us. It is for the ones going home,
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I put in thirty-four years on the line at Jefferson North, and I wrote poems on the backs of work orders the whole time. My foreman used to say I was the only man in the plant who could get fired for literacy. He was joking. Mostly. I grew up on the east side, raised three kids on Chalmers Street and buried my wife in 2019. These poems are about the plant, the river, my church, my neighbors and what a city looks like when you stay. My granddaughter typed them up. She says I have to tell you she fixed the spelling.
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