Using A Road-Roller On A Poetry Site Poem by Tan Pratonix

Using A Road-Roller On A Poetry Site

Ah, here is a nice red road roller,
With good solid drums,
That can flatten asphalt
(tar, metal, gravel)
Into flat smooth sheets.
Driving through the highways of Somerset,
Down into Devon and Dorset,
Is a pleasant experience on four wheels,
All because of that huge road roller
With heavy solid drums,
That has done its job for 40 years
And has now retired into the backyard
Of a Devon Cricket Club.
Up for sale at 500 pounds.
We at PHRI (PoemHunter Revived Inc)
Were prepared to shell out twice the price
For a solid asphalt compacter
To flatten out the loads of rubbish dumped
On our poetry site.
It's not right to have this humongous junk and metal
(Rather, rejected concrete blocks
Of misshapen poems and versification gone
From bad to rotten)
Dumped on our poetry site.
Why not organize a total clean-up
By road-rolling all this ghastly verbiage
Into thin black sheets
That can be used for topping roads and streets
In third-world countries?
Something has to be done
To remove the tons
Of misbegotten debris
(Product of crazy, paranoid and
decrepit minds) ...

Well, to cut a long story shot,
We paid the 500 pounds on the spot.
The road-roller is ready to be used
To flatten out all this refuse
And garbage and clutter
That's clogging up our poetry site.
Tarmac strips made from
This blackened poetic mess
Will pay back our 500 pounds
In less than six weeks, I guess.