It’s hot in Missouri. The summer sun looks down jealous of youth playing in the fields, carefree and careless. Kids drown muskrats with rocks in the stream, and have funerals for flies. Death watches, and waits for winter to come.
Here's a link to my you tube channel where I read from my recently published book, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems, available on Amazon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbj9bj58Txw