Saturday's Poem: Bad Day

elfin tailor

         BAD DAY by Kay Ryan

Not every day
is a good day
for the elfin tailor.
Some days
the stolen cloth
reveals what it
was made for:
a handsome weskit
or the jerkin
of an elfin sailor.

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But some days
neither the idea
nor the material
presents itself;
and these are
the hard days
for the tailor elf.