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Ednas Hovel
Edna lived with three cats and four dogs
In hovel that would disgust rats
Both her children moved away forty years ago
They did not visit; glad to escape a hoarder house.
She and her pets lived among piles upon piles of junk.
Their paths uneven, on cracker boxes and caps of milk jugs.
They gingerly walked over the rubble to get to their cozy corners.
Edna had a tv, at the end of one of the alleys, across from a couch.
She and the dogs sat on the couch; the cats sat everywhere else.
Edna had stopped throwing away trash years ago, adding it to her piles.
The smell of this home would be unbearable to most.
To her and her pets, it was the scent of home.
They were comfortable here.
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Caren Krutsinger
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