#514: Sonnet about that Contractor

I don’t think about him very often now.
What’s done is done and we like the results.
Some litigation would have been costly
and there’d be no guarantee of winning.
So we filed a complaint against the guy
and knew that was the best that we could do.
He left a lot of unhappy people
in his wake; us, feeling robbed, sub-
contractors unpaid, the job unfinished.
But it got done through that painful ending.
About taking it on in the first place,
not often, but sometimes I feel regret,
but then I spend some time inside the space
and then all that anger I’m able to forget.

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I'm a public high school English teacher, fiction writer, poet, and musician in Portland, Oregon

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