Wednesday, July 21, 2021

orifice

as things get desperate
i'd be willing to pull a
     word
out of any orifice
i could lay my hands on

after all
my dad would say
he'd go as far as
joining the steamfitters
if that was the only union around

sometimes (maybe always)
you just have to
     improvise
scramble down the highway
til that
     word
hits you
     head on

the clouds are getting grayer
by the minute
pressure's building
there's a pile of boiler pipe
with nowhere to go
my dad would probably say
just keep looking

--- e b bortz

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