《Strange world》Valentine's Week, 2021- Part 6
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The seventh day — a City truck appears
A little after sickly-faint, late-winter dawn
Then quickly quits the scene — am not surprised
Feel now that no one's coming, no one will
'Til all's engulfed, including me — best outcome
Sluice us all away, our whole damn dirty mess
But no, in time that City truck returns
Big chubby man in moonrise jeans appears
Explores, back toward the house, digs, delves
deploys some implements unknown
Some long and thin, some thick and green,
some that make vibrant sound
He labours a long hour as I spy,
try to sense what he's uncovered — bad or good —
by arcane language of his shifting thighs
And sturdy upper buttocks, plump and rosy white,
revealed by denim downslip, lit up by warm surprising sun
Already busy melting off the snow — less snow, more flow
from lake to shining lake across the former lawn
And then I glance away, look back, and . . . he is gone!
In panic mode I run out toward the gate, see him
Inside his City truck and flag him down — as he descends
I sense my evil maskless face exposed, gaze up at his —
but since we stand outside, in winter sun, ten feet apart
May still be safe? — he says he wasn't leaving, just completing
Paperwork, hands me the form, he's "giving me six days"
Six days I ask? To fix the problem, or City fines and charges will apply
He's pleasant, kind, tells me to get four quotes
Says he's dug out the problem spot, has marked the input route
But will not venture word on what the problem is
or, more crucial, what repair work ought to cost
A hundred? Thousand? Million? I cannot know
To get four quotes could easy take five days
Who knows how long the work itself might take
How can six days be thought to be enough
When City took full seven just to come?
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