I couldn’t fix
the leaking faucet
so I took a hard look
at my toolbox,
switched the places of the hammer
and the pliers,
moved the screwdriver
from the top deck
to the bottom,
threw away the rusty nails
and brought in a few shiny ones,
and finally,
released from duty a number of old bolts
and replaced them
with good-looking nuts.
I am camera-ready.
By Shai Ben-Shalom
