Friday, July 16, 2021

Sinkhole

A sinkhole, deep as 20 feet,

Collapsed without a warning,

Around the corner from my street 

Quite early in the morning.


Repair crews came but no one knows

What caused the sudden sinking.

Decrepitude, some folks suppose,

But not what we were thinking.


Ineptitude‘s what we would blame,

For workers have been toiling 

On that same block where they became

The source of tempers roiling.


They somehow cannot seem to fix

What underground befuddles,

So residents have had a mix 

Of flames, closed streets and puddles.


Our car was parked right down the block

Where that huge hole descended.

It would have come as quite a shock

If that’s how my life ended.


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