Friday, January 25, 2019

earth note 654


polemic road off route 19
in west virginia
still ranting while drowning
into the gray soup fog
not knowing the answer
for an appalachian mid-life crisis
coal dust thick in the creek bed
a homicide by any definition
waiting for acknowledgment
no matter how you cut it
if you can't believe that
just take a walk out back
and find the shithouse
still full
from the last century

--- e b bortz

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