The Continuing No Shame Poetry Series Presents "Deconstruction"

Deconstruction

I am taking down

Bulletin boards

In the church basement

Backing out the screws

That hold them to the wall

With my cordless drill

And a number 2 phillips bit.

I wonder about

The people who drove

Those screws in

Years ago.

Who were they

What were their lives like

And where are they now

Long gone, possibly

Moved away

Or dead. 

Keats had his

Statue of Ozymandias

And Grecian urn

To reflect on time

And eternity.

I have 

Bulletin boards

In the church basement

And

Deconstruction.

--Dan Verner