The (Most) Nabobist

it is very easy to carry a single shovel
into the yard and to break ground.
the pick and dig of green velour
breaks crisply under the sharpness
of even the dullest blunt blades.
but for the piling on of that earth, dies as it
mounds 'round like some gradual pompei
before the screams and witless scrambles
that fell back to earth from such high places.