Despite comments he made about "negativity" in Detroit back in 2006, Jack White still loves his home town. And to prove it, he's written a poem for the city, which was published in last Sunday's edition of The Detroit Free Press. Aww.
The poem closes with the verse: "Detroit, you hold what one's been seeking / Holding off the coward-armies weakling / Always rising from the ashes / not returning to the earth / I so love your heart that burns / That in your people's body yearns / To perpetuate / and permeate / the lonely dream that does encapsulate / Your spirit, that God insulates / With courageous dream's concern".
White told the paper: "Those expressions of mine [in 2006] have never been a representation of my feelings about Detroit the city, a town that I have strong feelings about ... nor were they expressions about its citizens".
Read the poem in full here: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008807060599