The POTW: Verse Til It Hurts

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POTW #865
(Week of 4 May, 2014)
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Pile Driver

It's steel and oil and cables and it's several stories high
A toddler with a hammer and a twinkle in its eye
A giant happy toddler smashing sticks into the ground
Whose only gleeful purpose is to pound and pound and pound

I waken in the morning to percussive rhythmic din
They're putting up a bridge and need to whack some pillars in
And so they have engaged a dedicated whacking rig
Just like a little kid except it's metal and it's big

For all our vaunted science and technology and brain
The kindergarten methods come up time and time again
Perhaps one day a cleverer procedure will be found
Til then I guess we'll go on bashing sticks into the ground

Copyright © 2014 by Dave Grossman

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