He was as much farce as he was man.
               Back hunched forward,
                slowly breaking.
                 laying down pavement.
                  
                   Yes, all that pavement
                    roads stretched for
                     miles in all 
                      directions.
                       But he had no where
                      to go.
                     
                    Then one day he fell
                   over in the middle
                  of his toil
                 and slept.
                When he woke up
               his tools were gone
              and he stood as straight
               as he could
                (which wasn't very,)
                 then he walked.
                  
                   Took those steaming 
                    hot roads under foot,
                     searching.
                      
                     He came upon a house
                    two days later
                   and peaked inside
                  the window.
                 It was abandoned.
                All he saw were webs
               in every corner
              stretched to the middle of the room.
               Dust turned the linoleum to dirt floors.
                So he wandered on
                 hearing voodoo drums
                  in his head.
                   It gave him the creeps
                    so he pressed on harder,
                     running when he could.
                    Sometimes he found 
                   whole neighborhoods,
                  but the houses always
                 looked the same inside.
                
	       He's still out there you know.
                Somewhere...
                 maybe up the block from you now.
                  But if he peaks in your window,
                   don't be alarmed.
                    He can't see you.

                      He stared at that
	   	        pavement so long.
                    he forgot what humanity looks like.
                   In fact, 
                  all he is looking for,
                 are his tools to lay some more.  

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