Breadcrumb #560

ALLAN LAKE

Regular cleans for household machines;
my aging car ingests best oil.
Helping them last to save a planet
plus poverty breeds frugality.
religious fundamentalism, bullet-riddled
‘America’ , Chinese & Russian hacking,
Saudi journalist dismembering, global
warmongering & warming, etcetera

But slamming screen door is missing
thingy that slows its zeal to embrace
door frame. Plaster of living room
cracking; extractor fan over the stove
not keen on extracting ; switches stick
and the clock, rescued by roadside,
is a bit slow but – Hallelujah –
somewhere there’s someone handy,
capable of fixing little things
for a slice of little incomes.
Must call one soon, right after
I figure out where to start.

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