Fire Hydrant

Teetering on magma. 
Just enough copy and pasted. 
Jump onto a moving pine tree. 
I have enough know how to trim the paint off a bench. 
Strip down the clogged drain.

A fire hydrant. 
Doesn’t know much about the landscape. 
Just knows:
That today is not the day to be temperamental.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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