poem: Spotted Hats

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*.Spotted Hats*					*Brian Whittingham*
....The welders ....wore spotted hats of many different colours ....crude leather leggings ....aprons ....and soft leather mitts

		they lit their cigarettes off glowing ends of hot electrodes

			and would only consider maintenance when their cables started to smoulder and smoke

		and when they weren't bevvied or smoking joints on top of the legs of the rig
		they would artistically weld pipes
		with bevelled preps ............and tackle "overhead" ...........................with a sureness of skill

		molten showers of sparks ............ potholing leathered protection as they twisted their rods to the most acute angles

	they viewed green glowing arcs as low hydrogen fumes
				.......n
		snaked their way		.........o
		round spaceman-like masks		......i
		the slag on the weld		..p
		curled up like the tail of a scor