for Fandango’s One Word Challenge(FOWC) of 27 October 2020, utilize.
It’s like as though I’ve just been blinded,
How could I be so absent-minded?
My circumstances simply dire,
I didn’t mean to start the fire.
I saw the smoke, I made a call,
Soon Fire Service in the hall.
They utilized their three-inch hose,
They really are a bunch of pros.
When fire damped down, the chief comes in,
“Your tumble dryer made the sin!
A close call here, you’re in out debt”,
But now my kitchen’s soaking wet!
Mister Bump 
A good poem
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When I started, it was gonna be about something dumb he’d done, but it kinda got lost with the tumble dryer.
Thinking about it, I was actually in a house fire once. Started by my landlord, who stubbed his cigarette out into his ashtray (without quite stubbing it out), emptied the ashtray into his wastepaper basket, then went out. I should have written about that instead.
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Scary things house fires!
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That actually did happen to me. Not for insurance purposes though. But yes, it was the dryer. No it wasn’t on in the middle of the night…a fault in the wiring. We were very lucky. Here’s a (very old) post I wrote about it:
https://lindakempwriter.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/when-a-crisis-calls/
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Funny enough I was once in a housefire too, although the circumstances were completely different. This account was just made up for the sake of the poem. Let me read your piece…
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