Knocking down history
architecture was removed
replaced by brutality
concrete and steel
like Liverpool, Cumbernauld
the remnants of
a desolation policy

you may have given homes
but you also gave crime,
you may have given transport
but you also gave isolation;
you may have given services
but neglect was more prevailant...

who needs houses
when human beings can live
in towers
identical boxes
crammed in boxes
in the sky,

a wonderful view
(of urban decay),
a unit for living;
the only way is
up

communities will thrive,
gardens for all
or so they thought
as it turns to wasteland
in the rain,
and the gangs hang out
polluting the lake,
pissing in the elevator
that never works anyway,
haunting the dingy, dark walkways
that we'll never walk alone.