There are no ghosts in Northeast Ohio

they left with the rubber companies.

Don’t misunderstand me.

Rubber workers who die

don’t become ghosts.

Ghosts experience freedom.

When a rubber worker dies

their skeleton keeps running the machines,

vulcanizing their shed flesh.

 

You visit your grandfather’s

grave in Akron.

The headstone is illegible, or

you wish it were.…

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