Written by Craig Kirchner
We left the trash sit too long, chicken paper,
they call it, the scraps and packaging
from what was a delicious Marsala,
made the kitchen unbearable.
The smell gags, the mind knows
immediately, the deterioration of flesh.
We know the smell, and the news.
Fox shows the police rounding up illegals
putting them on trains, sending them here
to be detained for deportation, to work until
they’re sent to their homes of origin,
depending on age, gender and ability to pay.
The Marxists and the underground
say there is an odor of corpses
buried in shallow, mass graves.
We notice the smell on the porch
when the evening breezes
come off the ocean and across the camp.
The commandant at Brunswick
acknowledges there are deaths.
You can’t put this many people together
and have no one die.
He attributes the stench to dead fish at the beach,
and having trouble with trash pick-up
We hope it goes away and the bad press stops,
the economy here is booming,
the camp has provided good paying jobs,
and the camp personnel buy all the produce
we can grow. Everyone says the smell will go away
in time, probably about two weeks.
Text © Craig Kirchner
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Everyting eventually, goes, away, but the memories that’s left that stale taste or that, bad feeling, it will always be, REMEMBERED.