2021.04.11.
Steel City
'Let me see your tears for once'I cast a spell on your warm back
Kiss the slight fever away,
and hear the rattling sound of the projector, always unexpected
Just wait for it,
I'll become just like a Steel City, 1,
and I won’t be kind even to the poor, abandoned cats
The ashes from the cigarettes will be dancing in the air,
and become just like your back, that I cannot grasp
And for the cats scribbled in the walls: I’m sorry.
I'll become just like a Steel City 1
and hide my voice all through the night
- “Steel City” is a common nickname for cities that were known for their production of large amounts of steel. In Japan, there’s an industrial city called Muroran, that lies on the southern coast of Hokkaido, it was known as a Steel City for its heavy steel manufacturing, but it all declined after the 70’s and and it became a forgotten, “grey smoke pouring from the steel mills settling upon the sky” kind of town. “Steel City” is also the exact name of the main setting in Jules Verne’s dystopian novel “The Begum’s Fortune”