The Tie Poem by Bill Grace

The edge of the hurricane brings rain to Texas always an event
Our newspaper has gone through this before carefully sealed in double bags with faced ends
Almost always some water this does send
Print to soggy reading.
All this being true
That care had been taken to tie the end caught my eye
Despite the paper's inevitable fate
What I took as care for reader was a mistake
Economics being supreme as usual
With tie only one bag was needed to hold off a customer spate.