Across the highway
I see the rendering plant
Smoking all night
Smell strong of death
Soap to be
Stand up slowly
Plants stink is stronger
In the hot depth of summer
Walk slowly down the road
Next to the lazy warm river
Shad run strong float
Dead and bloated in the water
Payment heats my feet
I walk in the spill off stream
On the side of the hot road
Sneakers wet feet soothed
At hill bottom stream runs strong
Water cold and white
Rolling over the dark unseen rocks
Tall chain link fence
Surrounds stinking sickening plant
Walking in the woods around it
I see a couple in a side meadow
Lateral pants at their knees
Finding some meaning creating
Condensation summer heat
Woods are dark penetrated
By rays of sunlight
Rear entrance of the plant approaches
Behind the truck is my goal
Dump of boxes junks refuse
So ugly decayed I feel more alive
On the mounds of garbage move
Sifting smooth shadows
Scavenging searching securing
My cat sits among them
Champion king victor stud
Amongst all others
He is not amongst my world
Any longer, He has passed over
To the dump primordial beyond
Conventions of dishes collars flea less
Existence, surveying his surroundings
His cock hard teeth bloody with pretenders
Flesh taste of their defeat strong in his mouth
His defeat will come soon, momentarily relatively
On the fumes exhaust waste from the plant
Cancers of progress touches us all
Summer day sweat of heat plant oozes fate
Gene G. McLaughlin 2004
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