I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?

The rustbelt was hit hard by the recession because it no longer had the high-paying manufacturing jobs to keep the tax base up.

enough to warm, but not enough to burn

The feeble folk at home had grown full-used / To 'dug-outs', 'snipers', 'Huns', from the war-adept / In the mornings heard, and at eventides perused; / To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused-- / to nightmare-men in millions when they slept.