Consumer Choice
By Lou Blodgett
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You can keep that two-ply, it isn’t very good.
Cherry, oak or cedar can be one expensive wood.
I’ve never needed wainscot. I’m not prone to blue-chip farts.
I want it beautiful, then, dutiful, it crumbles right apart.
Give me drywall.
It’s as smooth as it can be.
Give me drywall.
I abhor variety.
Don’t you think it’s lovely when you sneeze and hear it ring?
For cheap and simple projects, you know drywall is the thing.
I’ve never gotten stucco, not in thought or literally.
Rates on lathe and plaster are expensive as can be.
I want a wall that goes right up and slips into a slot.
Drywall can be many things, but maple it is not.
Give me drywall.
I mean that figuratively.
Give me drywall.
Without throwing it at me.
The wall that starts out dry and isn’t ever very wet.
How else can you bust through a wall and leave a silhouette?
Give me drywall.
It’s the best, for what it’s worth.
Give me drywall.
For my pre-fab motel berth.
With easy installation. You can do it at a walk.
Drywall’s always handy when you need a piece of chalk.
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Great to read something new,
Great to read something new, just what I needed to cheer me up :0) Thankyou Mark, too, for the hint about how to read it
Favourite line "Don’t you think it’s lovely when you sneeze and hear it ring?"
my son asked why I was chuckling so I told him about your poem and he wondered if it was because of a video he saw yesterday about a woman who liked eating dry wall? He went away impressed (as he thinks this is a site for old people) that one person on here is keeping up to date with current affairs
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