Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Bluebonnet Fever


This is the bathroom for the Acme School at Frazier NM.
There is no Frazier and no Acme now.
An old man in a pick-up truck
came by and told me that
the children
all died
of
Bluebonnet fever.
I think
he meant
Bubonic Plague.

And
the Plague
is still
on the rodents there
but
others told me that
when the brickyard closed
the people left.

Don't get too close.
An open well
or cesspit
lurks
within.