Things will drop off ladders onto plates below

Smashing them into tiny fragments - quite a show

Then. when the mess is not immediately cleared up

Problems come, as one gets glass splinters and cuts



Creating quite a painful situation when pressure

Is applied by walking around, opening fissure

And a tiny sharp splinter then makes its mark

By sticking into tender flesh, until one parks ...



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

3:35pm Tuesday July 28th, 1998