can't pay the repairman

drafty old windows don't close like they should
they let in the fresh air all day and night
wondering or dreaming, I'm always cold

one day I'll fix them, then be warm, not cold
no coins for repairman, pay him I should
when sleepless, I've something to do at night

tinkering, waking the neighbors tonight
moving quickly, a way not to catch cold
the repairs get done, not quite as they should

I should, at night, not complain of the cold!



can't pay the repairman
4 april, 2006
(poem inspired by the Tritina form)

Authors's note:

The Tritina is a ten-lined poem,

divided into three tercets and a single line to end.

The pattern looks like this:

LInes 1-3 A/B/C

Lines 4-6 C/A/B

Lines 7-9 B/C/A

Line 10 A,B,C

One should use pentameter or tetrameter.

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