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There's a terrible smell in the kitchen
like rotting fruit
or a dead mouse
high and lonesome, eye-watering
thin and whispering, fuzzy with grief

Whenever I think I've located it
it goes into hiding

You can bleach the sink
and empty the bins
look under the table and behind
the cupboards, but
you won't find it any of those places

Copyright © Lee Holloway Towers

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