Weathered overalls
And yellow hard hats
Smoke cigarettes
Berate colleagues
And tell stories
Often heard
Yet always applauded
They, watch marshmallows drop
And foam rise

Suits and stockings
Single file
Advance forward, steadily
To see
Their names in print
Or safety nets torn, mended
Or perhaps
To see who tells the jokes
And who are
The punch lines

Meanwhile
Men, and Woman
Pull in nets
As Perspiration, and fish guts
Combine a scent
As welcome as the melting marshmallows
And warm editions

A Man with best friend
Head into hills
Long before the bottles delivered
And the papers stacked
They return after
The printers re-fire
And signs dragged indoors

The Men and Woman meet,
As friends wait on flat decks
Or through cracked windows
Tongues waving in the breeze,
They smoke cigarettes
Berate mates
And tell stories
Often heard
Yet always applauded

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