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I love it when a poem is just fun, and no less deep for being so.

The Red and Green Cement Truck

rumbles by to where it’s going, while
     at an incline on the bed and
at right angles to the wheels
         its mixer, shaped
     like a big cocktail shaker, turns
upon an axis slowly, slowly,
     blending the cement and water.

     It is a feat as neat as
pat-your-head-and-rub-your-belly
     but what I like still better is
           to see in it
     ourselves, we who do best
to use our heads for mulling, mixing
       while with our feet
          we keep on trucking.

Richard Aldridge