The Roofer Says
It’s awful
Hot, too hot
For laying shingles,
Much too hot
For laying tin.
He says, why,
Between me
And the old man
And the older sister,
It made more sense
To keep a lawyer
On the books
Through the year.
We were gonna
Need him.
He says it got so
Bad with the bottles
Tossed in the dead place
Back of the house
I had to fire
Up the skidsteer.
Loaded up a whole
Truckload full.
Was they whole
Or broken,
Another guy
Wants to know.
Was what whole
Or broken?
The bottles.
Broken, mostly,
The roofer says.