A Saturday night at the Tall Fixed Bolted Or Welded Steel Lattice-Work Structures Social Club
A
Saturday
night
at the Tall
Fixed
Bolted Or Welded
Steel
Lattice-Work Structures
Social Club
It's a select affair:
oil rigs, electricity pylons,
tower cranes, radio and TV masts only.
No suspension bridges, tower blocks,
wind farms, or cooling towers.
Scaffolding doesn't qualify,
however long it's been up.
Nor do cherry-pickers,
although their union has been lobbying
for admission for a long time now.
It's a lonely life stuck out in the middle of the North sea
or strung out over Saddleworth moor.
And you have to maintain an image
of reliability and strength.
So you need the chance to bend every so often
with like-minded folk,
sink a few cans of red oxide anti-rust paint,
swap tales of high winds and poor maintenance,
chill out with a steel band,
or strut your stuff
to Metallica on the juke box,
or an Iron Skies tribute band.
poetrymagazines' note: This poem was originally printed left-aligned. The formatting has been corrected above. It subsequently appeared in the author's first full collection Human Geography, published by Driftwood Publications in 2005.
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