Monday, May 09, 2005

roofing another poem

On the roof repairing and patching
the asphalt shingles that were never replaced
I worked the line up from the edge
like you are supposed to
and then started another line,
nailing and tarring as I went
because it was a patch
and not a new roof,
thinking it was working out pretty good
and got down on the ground
and saw what an awful job:
no parallelism, spacing all wrong,
clearly an amateurish mishmash.

My lines don't match
the nails show through
but I'm still writing.

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