The smell of death outside my door

[Erthona]

Thanks for your comments and insight fogglethorpe,

"My only reservation is that it starts with a trochaic rhythm, and establishes a rhyme..then, once I settle in it changes."

Yes, that was purposeful, whether it works or not, well... that is up to the reader's judgment.
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Thanks Marcella,

better a heartache than a headache any day.

Dale