Plague Poems on Nostr: As he came up next to me in the hardware store the burly man took one look at my mask ...
As he came up next to me
in the hardware store
the burly man
took one look at my mask
and asked:
“dealing with concrete dust?”
and though I was not,
I simply said, “yeah,”
so the next time you are asked
why you are masking
just tell them that you
are dealing with concrete dust.
Published at
2025-10-10 17:17:47 UTCEvent JSON
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