It smells like coal

It smells like coal my mother says "Reminds me of my childhood," she says Reminds her of family reunions Ashland, KY formerly a place of gathering (It is now a ghost-town living up to its name) before reunions moved north just like the jobs before Ohio few things change in West Virginia We pass by the same roadside bars and saloons where people who live for distraction get high. It smells like coal