Used Up
The painter in his cap sits there
On a front porch chair,
And no one asks him to paint—
“He drinks,” is their complaint.
There was a time he got those jobs,
Now the liquor slowly robs
His reputation till it goes—
But still he wears those painter-clothes.
Copyright © Steve Eng | Year Posted 2009
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