(32) March 27, 2010: Construction 1: Decorated Radish

CONSTRUCTION 1: DECORATED RADISH

Begin with seven pins and one
round radish washed with rain.
Poke three pins in to simulate
a three-thin-legged stool,
Then find just four equator points
each equidistant round the globe,
then make for it a pedastal
with one fat wooden spool.

And now just jab the radish with
a yellow pencil number two,
a North Pole perpendicular
to the four pins round the girth.
And then impale the pink eraser
head with twenty-four safety pins
as if you're marking off the time
zones on the planet earth.

Now sprinkle half a cup of powered
sugar on your work of are,
and sixteen shakes of cardamon
to add a bit of spice.
And then for one last hip hooray
pluck twelve red petals from a rose,
arrange them like the numbers on
a clock all neat and nice.

D. Edgar Lamp

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