Blood Pumping Station #2

Those Dagger words
He folded
Within a thou of an inch
And slid them under
The loading bay shutter of
Blood Pumping Station
#2

Those Dagger words
She’d scolded
Bypassed safety valves
Raised pressure
Caused critical waged warnings
In the guts
Of his boiler room

Those Dagger words
He hoped
Would miss the piss-taking
From the lads
On the night shift in his brain
He hoped
That maintenance
Would be round
To fix that soon