Underneath

By Jack Joseph Smith

The tulip still lives in the industrial city Like ice around flesh it breaths not what it takes in And to stay alive it creates colors like a gypsy It is crushed across the summers Both by followers of golf pros and streetwalkers Yet its rhyme came from an orchard Thus lost time may remain sacred The dimension of light over city night life Doesn't make it difficult to wilt in spring But the ring around its pollen, is stronger than the satellites

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The speaker describes a tulip living in an industrial city, making colors while people crush it across summers. The speaker remembers its orchard rhyme and closes by comparing the ring around its pollen with satellites.

The speaker keeps survival beside crushing and spring wilting. The stronger pollen ring offers a comparison of powers without guaranteeing the flower's safety.

Claude

The poem says 'The tulip still lives in the industrial city', 'crushed across the summers / Both by followers of golf pros and streetwalkers', and that 'the ring around its pollen, / is stronger than the satellites'.

The tulip stands for endurance in an industrial setting, and the ending ranks nature above technology. 'breaths' is the typed spelling.