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/// Since his sole tool’s a hammer, he fails
to view problems as other than nails.
It can pound without doubt,
but Gramps pulls most nails out.
He destroys everything he assails.

/// Ivan’s hammer, he learned, symbolizes
urban labor in all of its guises.
While the sickle can stand
for those working the land—
every peasant that Ivan despises.

/// Norse mythology just makes him snore,
and he’s useless in matters of war.
It’s because of his lisp
that his diction’s not crisp,
thus he says “Hammered thumb became Thor.”

/// Grandpa’s far too diminished to know
that he does have a hammer, and so
when the doddering fool
swings his backward-held tool,
the sharp claw splits each wood board in two.

/// I searched Google for this painter’s name,
but I failed in achieving my aim.
As for works he has done,
all I found was this one.
No V.P. Mokhnachev achieved fame.

/// How did Steve Melcher manage to find it?
Maybe there’s a long story behind it.
Was a yard-sale the source?
Or a kinsman? Of course!
Melcher’s Russian great-uncle designed it.