In answer to your query, a poem by Naomi Lazard

Naomi Lazard is a poet and a playright. She was born in 1936 in Philadelphia and attended the City College of New York. Her poetry has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, American Scholar, Harper's Bazaar, Hudson Review, The Nation, Saturday Review, Chicago Review, and other magazines. She has been Poet-in-Residence at Hamilton/Kirkland College and at the University of Montana. A past President of the Poetry Society of America, Lazard is a founder of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

This poem of hers seems appropriate today as we contemplate the fate of the American auto industry.

In answer to your query by Naomi Lazard

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