Awe of Everything

Do you know what’s the unluckiest thing In the world, a differential grasshopper Said to me. I paused, I put down the Diesel grinder I’d been trying to fix, I turned off the stealth bomber, I faded Away from the faded away pedals, I put up Finely embroidered silk panels over the Faces of the statues, I pulled the green Vacillating amplifier into the hallway, I swiveled seven of the chains and Loosened the bolts in the balcony, I went Into the barn to unlace the cattle and Overturn the empty buckets, I put the White flag on the mailbox, I cut the Telephone wires, I fed the ducks better Than I usually feed them, I adjusted the Faucets so they’d drip a little, I waved At old Mr. Wiley with his smokeless pipe And his manpowered plough across the field, I moved a claypot off of a narrow ledge, I taped the key to the bulldozer to the Roof of the canopy, I took the cup of Auger bits away from the rabbit hutch, I put a padlock on the children’s playhouse, I picked up a stick by the sideyard gate, I broke it over my knee, I went to the well To fill a stone pitcher with cool water, I let the donkey & the goats go. I took A ladder to the hayloft and took down a Suitcase. I could see across the valley Down to the river from up there.