The Hamlet Project

This new wing of the house still has that fresh paint smell.
The walls are sturdy as of a few weeks ago. We bought
Furniture – tables and chairs and lamps and a puffy sofa.
Did you see our coffee table books? We never had anything like them before.
This one features photos of trains from the Roaring Twenties,
Beautiful photographs of iron and gears and retro signs that were brand new then.
This book is hardly used, hardly opened.
The pages could cut you.
We shouldn’t have invited those people over.
They may not have tracked literal mud into our new addition
But their boorish behavior has left dirt all over the place.