They Stink

by | Apr 8, 2015 | Poetry

Now the rich people

down by the lake

complain about

 

the vultures —

They stink!

Myself, I laugh

 

to see those birds

cock their Vees

and look for death,

 

for they are con-

sumers of offal,

takers of all

 

the world refuses,

cleaners of what

needs cleaning.

 

Down by the lake,

though, the rich people
still complain —

 

They stink!

 

Photo By: Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith

About The Author

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Tom Montag’s books of poetry include: Making Hay & Other Poems; Middle Ground; The Big Book of Ben Zen; In This Place: Selected Poems 1982-2013; This Wrecked World; The Miles No One Wants; Love Poems; Seventy at Seventy and The River Will Tell You (forthcoming). His poem ‘Lecturing My Daughter in Her First Fall Rain’ has been permanently incorporated into the design of the Milwaukee Convention Center. He blogs at The Middlewesterner. With David Graham he recently co-edited Local News: Poetry About Small Towns.