Everywhere you go
these days
you see them repaving roads
getting busy—
aka
one in six guys getting busy
slinging slurry
as the other five confer
(that traffic’s down)
you see overdue
construction
ahh…
constructing
and bridges
umm…
abridging
and not a lot else
–not a lot of foot traffic
making it an optimum time
to
clean house
and I swear,
for all the world
it feels like
we’ve been fired
a population fired,
and now
they’re prettying up the place
–for some new pop
as yet to be determined
lurking in the
shadow-
-puppets
we’ve become
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