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In the summers of 1975-1977, I worked as a rodman/rear chainman on the County's road survey crew (my father and grandfather had worked for the County's road maintenance department before me).  The first summer was the most exciting, because of the newsness of the experience.  This tanka was inspired by my then supervisor's anger if one of our less than permanent benchmarks disappeared over time.