MINESHAFT
Coal seams and Pennsylvania hybrid hills.
There's little left of legacy amidst our modern
ills. Chain stores and mega-myths, new stories
of the lion and lamb. They're wishing to build
a mall into the side of Calfin's Mountain - the
open seam of the coal-mine there, long ago
abandoned, gives these councilmen and business
jerks ideas. There was a time, some time ago,
about 1936, that twelve men died inside that
spot when the brooding, blackened walls caved
in. Bodies are still in there, a few anyway. The
story goes they gave up hope, just closed the
hole, and walked away, grieving. Now the kids
use it for making out, and a few tramps used
to camp and live there when the weather was
good. Everything else is over now, even
the memories are gone. Yes, even the
memories are gone.
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