as I have for many a year
my strong hands building a wall of charm
on a farm in the north forty
working by myself and that’s the way I want it
bricks and mortar give no quarter
built a lot walls over the years inside and out outside and in
sacred temples, mammoth monuments
pointy egyptian pyramids reaching way up high touching the sky
bridges spanning rivers and mountains of white
stonehenge, the great wall of china
all built by guys like me
I’ve carved my share of animals and other designs
carved some tombstones not always a somber occasion
depending on who I was making it for
will make my own someday to make sure it’s done right
etched epitaphs elegant and enigmatic and egotistical
“Loved by all”, I doubt it
granite, marble, and slate
there ain’t no kinda stone I hate
sorcery and the apprenticeship
I wouldn’t have it any other way
