Home Improvements
Your buck of a builder arrives
in his sign-written truck
they belong
to your dull stepfather –
both the van and the man
and in your imagination
you have used his hands –
calloused – to fix things
in your mind – everyone knows
how these things develop
You returned from a night in Brighton
red-eyed – smelling of men –
of booze and wrecked
He had driven you and your sister
home
Such a gent