AE: ANECDOTES WITH INTENTION

I watched them tearing a building down, A gang of men in a busy town.

With a ho-heave-ho and lusty yell, They swung a beam and a sidewall fell.

I asked the foreman, "Are these men skilled, As the men you'd hire if you had to build?"

He gave me a laugh and said, "No indeed! Just common labor is all I need. I can easily wreck in a day or two What builders have taken a year to do."

A surprising thought follows...