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Waiting preparation

words are gushing from the page.

Rushing sequences and plots:

in lines along a mental maze.

Twists and turns contend with

the wall that interrupted everything.



It had to be salvaged,

but work began too late,

held up by mental litigation

and lobbyists who in their own minds

believe themselves to be something else.

By the time ground was broken

and the project got under way,

complications were comfortably settled in,

at leisure in our absence

and ready to but up a sedentary fight.



Sweat, toil, a little blood from knuckles and calluses,

the work was finished,

but the plans had to be discarded.

The replacement blueprint,

though strikingly similar in structure,

is slightly different in foundation,

and completely unalike

in surface detail.

But, the function remains unchanged,

and the feeling of the place

may even be more fitting

of its future residents.