Saturday, August 24, 2024

Assembling a Metal Lawn Chair with Great Care (and a Ball-Peen Hammer) - poem

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Assembling a Metal Lawn Chair with Great Care

 (and a Ball-Peen Hammer)

 

A friend gave me a lawn chair in tangerine

Bright tangerine, with instructions in English

Which I followed most assiduously

Which parts of the chair most surely did not

 

The instructions did not mention a ball-Peen hammer

With brutality and words which must not be spoken

(Think of Vulcan and his mighty strokes)

I finally assembled the chair to my satisfaction

 

And then I sat down

 

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