Hoopie

Dump truck, junked: round fenders, steel box.

Whittle the wheel-base and cut the cab. We tinker,
we toil. “Street legal,” commands the commissioner.

Tweak ‘til the plate reads Instrument of Animal Husbandry.

We weld and bolt, we glue and scrape. A marriage
of wheeling and gear. Radiator leak? Creek water.