It was down to bone on bone
they said, but he shouldered on
as each year ground on the year before
until much to do was hard to reach
so he succumbed to the surgeon’s cut,
the incisive smile of an opening through which
to power-tool out the burnt-out roach
and get a fix on a nice new joint, easy as
dropping a reconditioned gearbox
into a revamped old Mustang,
having done the town, burnt some rubber
got the girl, and settled down.
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