Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Poetry from the book { The Lion and the Sun} by artist Troy Richard Thomas

                         The plumbers game

My family hires a plumber to work on a downstairs bathroom

It probably took him about 15 minutes to sweat the pipes and set the faucet in

My Mother has sneaky suspicion of plumbers, so she goes downstairs to check on his work habits

She opens the door to find the plumber laying on the tile floor with his butt crack showing reading a Hot Rod magazine

He was trying to rack up the minutes to make an hours work

My Mother tells him to gather his things and get out of the house

He tries to show my Mother that he has accomplished the job by turning on and off the faucet

As he is leaving the house

Our family dog who lays like a mop on the floor 99 percent of the time, and one percent of the time he's chasing the mailman or meter reader

The dog seeing my Mother upset with a guy, a stranger in our home who is looking guilty and scared of my Mom

The dog vaults down the stairs and bites the plumber on the ass as he leaves

The clanging van of pipes quickly exits our driveway.

Poetry from the book {The Lion and the Sun} by Artist Troy Richard Thomas

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