Lines in the Mortar

"Interpret us," they say
With utmost regularity;
They: the interstitial grout
Within a bricky, blank redoubt...
Their monumental task I must decline.
And yet they call,
Rectilinear faction on the wall,
As if the Babylonians
Devised a pointless script
And grooved it about, too nondescript
For scholars to savvy.
"Interpret us!" they nonstop shriek,
And in the course of one scant week,
I

Lines in the Mortar