Waterworks

Construction workers are not dangerous; their tools are solely to blame, the jackhammer was indeed the culprit and his drill broke through the concrete making contact with a pipe that lay deep beneath. And in an instant, she sprung a leak, as each splash of water drips slowly down the concrete tiles the sewer becomes filled, choked up by all the mess inside. Puddles form in masses on the road and in no time, a little leak became a flood, the street left in ruins and the pipe, she could never be mended - cut too deep - and the jackhammer, he was to blame, for not drilling carefully. [written March 2010]