Tonight's Poet Corner: Something Smells

Something Smells
by Belinda Roddie

Oh, Hell, something
smells. Draw up the curtains, 'cause I'm
certain something's died here, never
tried to tread out the muck
or the carcass that's
stuck and dried underneath the
porch, you see. Oh, spoon me a
ladle of some sweet thick maple
to plug up my nose and tingle my
toes and soothe my tongue with a
tune that's sung high-pitched like a
motor while this terrible
odor is whiffed away like
another Tuesday.