[ CC ] Cricket Song

    
Is this really necessary?    
I am constantly asking    
   
There are no critics with answers    
cryptic or straighforward    
only crickets chirping    
---they are just as unhelpful    
   
Sun settles to earth    
long after my cement crusted    
little, red wheelbarrow    
with a recently flattened tire    
came to an abrupt halt;    
   
a contraption quite useless    
in its downtime on a good day    
except for collection of rain    
and shade offering to chickens    
---lack of multifunctionality    
on full display as if it was    
the perfect minimalist poem    
   
I know I already asked this, but    
Is this really necessary?    
in the hopes of reply from something    
other than Mary's busy little builders    
   
So much of our lives consumed    
with acquiring this and that thing    
to accomplish that and this task    
---all of which excelling in irrelevance    
if you were to fast forward    
the Betamax recording of Life    
to the end result    
   
Regardless of my energy expended    
shuffling mortar across yard    
for binding a fireplace's brickwork    
the house I am currently building    
already exists in finished form    
for generations to come;    
   
enjoying its warmth in winter    
after trudging paper-sacked foods    
through snow from the market    
strangers who didn't have to lift a finger    
in the construction of it other than    
writing a check