Tire-Patch >>> Poem by Manonton Dalan

i enter this tire shop
along busy exit highway
they have four customer
before me, loud lamenting
about running over nails
where that came from anyway
i too run over one of them

i remember following work truck
pulling an open trailer loaded
with old lumber, metal sheets
when i heard this noise beneath
my rear panel, i thought bearing
went bad; like my previous car
this one is different by little bit

sure enough when i stop i look
i see metal screw buried deep
as big as corn kernel, at center
i went to buy my light lunch first
then i remember that shop before
tireman is so nice he deserve tip
i always go there for tire repair