a the thirty-degree double rolling offset plus four minutes

it's late. late for the wilderness
anyway because all the frogs
are quiet or maybe they're listening
amphib ears pressed to our window
while he constructs a thirty-degree
double rolling offset from my bent leg,
my bent arm, his bent arm, the perfect
vortex forming at elbow-elbow-knee

if not for W.L. Franklin, I'd be
long since laid and sleeping.
instead I'm mind welding pipe
at thirty-degrees plus four minutes
so on-solution and barren-solution
will mix fifty-fifty into pregnant-solution
assuming the flow rate and friction don't
interfere with pump pressure

this is a macho weld, a reputation weld
a money saving make old W.L a god weld
recreated in body parts, in pencil-finger-straw,
and once again in shadow on the ceiling.
I want to know why thirty-degrees, why not
forty, or twenty, how big can the pipe be,
how does it form the vortex and why
don't they just mix it fifty-fifty in a tub somewhere
then pump it into the fundafilter
I have not a clue what a fundafilter is

so he explains the formula again
and I nod, trying to look wise,
thinking that a thirty-degree
double rolling offset must look very much
like a Y or a cut in half saw-horse
but what I don't understand
is why I have to know all this...
when I'm just trying to get laid

Renay