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a hot day and a smelter

A hot day and a smelter

Is it in Qatar, or in Dubai a friendly aluminum 
smelter for sale, the one in the picture on a TV add
looks ok
Now that my wife is on holiday with her aunt I cruse
on the TV, but this is the first time I have come across 
a smelter of aluminum 
I buy food at the deli and warm it at home, taste
remarkable like my wife's cooking, not that I have seen
her peeled potatoes.
She hollers, come and get it and slams the cooking
lids together
I have had many cars, old ones, mainly because 
I can't afford the taxi fare, I have no money to
buy a new car.
Aluminum smelter!
Wouldn't that be amazing?
I met a man in a bar who said he was a retired poet
spent his time writing slogans on walls
I told him about the affable smelter in Dubai 
the retired poet looked out of the window 
picked up his notebook and took no interest
in my smelter
He had seen a donkey with a straw hat and 
regretted his retirement 

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