They took me an afternoon.
Die cast plastic & paint
sift through five pages of plans
I used to build model cars.
With proper care, careful painstaking gluing and painting
they would have taken
days or weeks.
I was too anxious to finish.
It took me an afternoon.
Slap the glue on, make it fit.
Find paint that'll work
and no matter how shabby the little car looked
I always made the dinner time deadline.
So, how now can I be expected
to show up every day and
maintain a job and a regular adult life?
