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Tailpipe

12/5/2014

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Tailpipe
by M.L. Crider
November 2014

The rumble of the tailpipe 
leaks its snot in spurts 

drips on the cracked pavement
He revved the accelerator twice
to warm it

His fingers, winter bones
He breathed on them to thaw through his shirt
Nineteen degrees in December
Sun on the rise over the wheat
He had to work.

Humble are the ones
who trudge the thickest snow

who calculate the bridges' strength 
when no one else will know


For you, for me, for him, for she
Humble gets a name
In anonymity; quiet invisibility

without, we would never be the same
 
The architect of a bridge
The mastermind of the overpass
These are the real keepers of worker bees and queens,

and of each of us in between


The local school line cook
feeding your cherished 
they wake before the sun
no matter the weather

their duty never to perish

The Daily Heroes

their silent duty
Stitching and uniting this ubiquitous quilt

The rumble of the tailpipe
the spurts, the pavement drips


by M.L. Crider www.TheInterims.com - novel teaser 1
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