BUILDING THE HULL. 1996.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10.8 x 7cm, 4pp, A drawing of two parts of a model boat hull by Gary Hincks has internally:

BUILDING THE HULL

First plank
this half

then plank
that half

then wonder why
2 matching halves
won’t fit

The word plank here has a double meaning – in lowland Scots it means “to place” – hence the poem can be read as either a description of bad design or bad construction. VG+.