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I. Aubade
It was a sad day. Well, what’s not, you want
to tell me there are days that aren’t?
There’d been a fight, not a fight but a quarrel,
not a quarrel but a, all right, a quarrel...
II. Exposition
but if you want to get in bed with the devil
then any dispute expands beyond a confrontation,
the way growth rings expose themselves
once a tree’s cut down, not before.
III. Dénouement
There was no point to it, so Beveridge
put away the hammer. Sometimes,
after all, you’re the nail.
And when that happens...
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IV. Recueillement
wielding a hammer is too much like
self-flagellation, or as the pop psychologist
murmurs, all hatred is self-hatred.
Besides, he thought he’d felt the tree wince.
V. A Man and His Tools
Hammerless, Beveridge looked at the nail,
bent at an obtuse, no, not quite an obtuse,
angle, from far too many wayward swings.
It was hardly the tree’s fault, the hurting
tree, bark is naturally an unevfen surface --
hey, I’ve seen that “f”
in the middle of words before --
not really Bev’s fault either. You could go
back and forth with this, which would
pretty much compensate for the repetitive
fulcrum of arm and hammer,
but in the final analysis,
it was probably the nail that was at fault:
VI. Epizeuxis
There was no point to it. After all,
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Walter Robinson © 2020
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Walter Robinson is a retired fiduciary trust manager.