INERTIA TOWNS 101

by Luke Tanner


-Question 1

Middlesbrough, Cleveland
+
Schnectady, New York
<
(Two World Wars x Fire and Furnaces)
=
I Trail The Gold Rush A Century Too Late


-Question 2

British Steel
+
General Electric
>
(Unskilled Population Booms x Rapid Urban Sprawl)
=
Fleeting Economic Band Aids Lacking In Adhesive.


-Question 3

“The Birthplace of The Railways”
+
“Gateway to the West”
/
(Price of Importation x The Factories and Smoke)
=
Once Frontier Towns Identified By Decline


Please show your work below:

-The Workers Have No work
-The Streets Are Lined With Gum
-The Towns I Have Lived In
-Exist To No-one, Save The Citizens
-Like Mile-Wide Mislaid Jigsaw Pieces
About the Author:
Luke Tanner, 22, is a dyslexic
counterfeit of a writer, an
impersonation of a guitarist and general
all round fraud. When not locked away
in a small attic in the anonymous
seaside town of Saltburn trying to write
his first novel ‘A One-Way Ticket To
Torpor” based in the North-East of
England (which remains so curiously
absent in British fiction) he is a small-
time hipster, who draws random
illustrations that have turned into this
website http://thetorporstrip.bravehost.
com/index.htm
Copyright © 2005 by Luke Tanner