by Ed Makowski
Working in a basement
computer warehouse
with one other man
who was hired
before me, so
naturally
he had seniority
and played
conspiracy theory radio
We worked between
40 and 60 hours per week
listening to radio shows about
time travel, chupacabras,
grays (slang for aliens),
poisonous con-trails,
the bloodline of Christ,
werewolves and vampires,
unidentified flying objects,
abnormalities in weather
and
everything was caused by
government experiments.
A dusty decades old
basement with poor lighting
on land that had been
Native American marsh.
Deforested, drained, filled.
Then paved and built to become
new retail opportunities
in mid-century America.
When Dave started seeing men
walking about in loin cloths,
and vanishing, I wondered
what had taken them
so long.