Come Back, Area 51

everyone knows
about area 51
and that stuff happened there,
all kinds of stuff.

they say it’s shut down now.
they say they’ve moved it.
no one’s sure where it went
but stuff must be happening
somewhere

that we aren’t supposed to know about.

point at any map
and pick a town.  stuff is probably
happening there
we aren’t supposed to know about,
but we’ll never hear about it.
then someone will move
to another town
and stuff will continue there,

but no one writes books
about that stuff. no one wonders
about that stuff,

about small towns rife with
secret wars
and monsters living side by side
with normal folk.

at least when we still had area 51
we knew where to look for them,
and now they could be
everywhere.