Management a stickler for us to present...

Management a stickler for us to present...

A Poem by matthew scott harris
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my thoughts unspool willy nilly and i rarely stop myself but write and append google tidbits, but generally little tampering takes place cuz the spontaneity and extemporaneous process finds me glad.

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our one bedroom apartment spic
and span for requisite inspection.

Fortune smiled on myself and the missus
that inspection scheduled for May seventh
deferred until the following Thursday
May fourteenth two thousand twenty six
predicated on an unexpected death
of a favorite tenant
here at highland manor apartment.

That ideal circumstance
the unexpected demise
of a resident at aforesaid name of facility
gives us an opportunity
to accomplish more tidying
and maybe even pay a technician
at Stanley Steamer to clean the rugs
versus replacing them
before we move out,
which sought after wish
would be reason to celebrate.

The space we chose
to allocate arbitrarily
(almost nine years ago -
July first two thousand and seventeen
our move-in date) as a bedroom
now necessitates humdrum
tasks of sweeping
carpet and vacuuming
(quite possibly hiring
a Stanley Steamer technician)
among whom happened
to be hired hand qualified
as an amateur archeologist
whose sixth sense not only
saw the lovely bones of dead people,
but he possessed an uncanny faculty
for discerning burial grounds
of original occupants
underscored by a
centuries and millennium long rumor,
which claimed an abundant number
of perfectly preserved timeless relics
of prelapsarian (the time or state
before the biblical "Fall of Man"
viz Adam and Eve's
expulsion from Eden),
signifying a period
of perfect innocence,
purity, and unspoiled existence
often used metaphorically
to describe a pristine, ideal,
or carefree era before a major,
negative change abounded
initially serving as a grade school
before being repurposed
that the then future site of HUD -
housing and urban development
held bountiful secrets
re: physically interred mummified tribes
and thus funds acquired
to prove the naysayers wrong
and further scrutinizing
and subsequent excavating
only reinforced fable
where some snot nosed kid
first discovered once upon a time
artifacts established on this foundation
showed courtesy computer technology
a long since faded
spaceX cryptic futuristic design
resembling symbols with
Elon Musk forebear trademark characteristics
marking the very spot
and near guaranteeing treasure trove of
indigenous people
A profuse amount of kitchen midden
an archaeological term
for a prehistoric refuse heap
or garbage dump,
typically composed of discarded shells,
animal bones, charcoal,
and, sometimes, old tools,
whereat these mounds,
often found near
ancient coastal settlements,
provide valuable insights
into past diets,
environmental conditions, and cultures
where a sophisticated civilization throve
before circa nineteen sixty nine
nondescript low slung facility built
atop mass burial grounds
included primitive hand drawn blueprints
based on regional geological mapping,
the Highland Manor apartments
in Schwenksville, Perkiomen Township
underlain by the Lockatong Formation,
which Triassic-aged geological unit
consists primarily of dark gray
to black argillite, shale, and limestone,
which constitute part
of the broader Newark Basin group,
whereby primitive crude drawings
etched in rock,
or a similar facsimile thereof,
millenniums ago by the standards
of estimated old
homework assignments dated
where housed a swank dwelling
which eventually served as a mass morgue
intimating and substantiating rumors
potential severe extraterrestrial attack
or apocalyptic catastrophe occurred,
thus putting a halt
to further demolishing

particularly foundational fountainhead,

which inexplicable discovery
prompted local political activist group
to hire specialists
to monitor careful excavation
when tearing up the cement floor,
which would subsequently necessitate
a backhoe to exhume
and discover bitta bing bitta bang,

at least one perfectly
preserved nerdy skeleton

and eerily and creepily
resembled likeness of yours
particularly adorned with

ample flesh and
long wavy hair intact,

which ideal environment
registered perfect conditions,
albeit lacked absolute zero oxygen
hence corpse in situ
did truly remain intact,
whereat archeologists carefully extricated

additional deceased
specimens and hurriedly

refrigerated him et al "Et al"
a scholarly abbreviation
for the Latin phrase et alia (or et alii),
meaning "and others"
used in academic citations,
bibliographies, and formal writing
to replace a list of multiple authors,
editors, or people
generally referring specifically
to people, not things fully intact

applied techniques to gingerly
transfer cadaver which
major underground cataclysm
amazingly did in-tomb
long before highland
manor apartments got erected
initially as an elementary school,
which building got repurposed
post nineteen sixty nine
as than state of art
low income residence
intended to house people
like myself and the missus
when historical massive
trove of fully intact humans
occupied this tract of land.

© 2026 matthew scott harris


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