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The Groundsman’s Marriage

It wasn’t easy (It never is) To repair the ends Between the showers Of our endless arguments But regular use of the light roller With judicious use Of the elephant’s foot And a straight edge Gave us a true surface To play on . CLP 08/04/2019 n.b. NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 8 prompt: Workplace terminology as…

It wasn’t easy

(It never is)

To repair the ends

Between the showers

Of our endless arguments

But regular use of the light roller

With judicious use

Of the elephant’s foot

And a straight edge

Gave us a true surface

To play on

.

CLP 08/04/2019

n.b. NaPoWriMo 2019 Day 8 prompt: Workplace terminology as metaphors. A streaky innings here on a drying pitch.

4 responses

  1. Shuku Li Avatar
    Shuku Li

    Oh I love the image of arguments smoothed over with a light roller. It’s a wonderful metaphor – and so very true.

    Day 8! This NaPo is eating me like Cthulhu…
    https://shukuen.blogspot.com/2019/04/glopowrimo-day-8-knightly-art-of-combat.html

    1. Christopher Perry Avatar
      Christopher Perry

      I chose a happy ending…then. Pure fiction of course, or is it?

      1. Shuku Li Avatar
        Shuku Li

        Who knows? Poetic endings can come true too!

      2. Christopher Perry Avatar
        Christopher Perry

        They can and are

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