The Yardman قصة قصيرة

The yardman



The yardman comes every two weeks
He drives a gray pickup truck. The truck is a Ford
It is about 15 years old, but it runs well.
It doesn’t burn oil, and it gets decent gas mileage
The yardman’s name is Byron.

In the back of his truck are a lawn mower,
a leaf blower, a rake, and a shovel.
Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and
dirt from the back of the building out to the front of the building.
Then he rakes up the leaves into a bag.
He blows the dirt out into the street.
He cuts the lawn with his lawn mower.
He trims the hedge. He uses the leaf blower
to blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies
in front of each apartment door.

Then he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings,
and the hedge clippings into a wheelbarrow
He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the building,
where he uses his big shovel to empty
the wheelbarrow contents into the big dumpster
It takes Byron about two hours to do this work

When he is done, he goes half a block up the street
to the house on the corner
There he does the same work again