Boatload of Pain • Gerard Sarnat

summer vacation
marina job Mr. Shaver
     the high
school shop teacher
got me out of pity
    even though
my spring semester
           wooden ox cart
    was a fucking
             disaster,

 screwing
    around, mostly
hammered,
       this bad boy 
let down Dad  
who really should’ve
             known
       our kinda Jew 
can’t use 
              tools

      which
              privileges 
were revoked
      by my wife
thirty years ago
       after several 
   wangdang
                doodle 
expensive compressor
       misadventures