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I clean when I am Angry

the only time I clean is when I am angry because anger begets anger and cleaning always puts me into a brown funk I have been known to turn a room upside down and inside out dusting, stripping, vacuuming, bleaching, dipping when I am ready to tear off someone’s limbs Because limb-tearing-off might land me in jail And it’s not my fault when anger grabs me It means you HURT me DEEPLY I will probably drop you. Block you. Toss you out of my life. I will clean until I am ready.to domp you Using up my energy this way Keeps me from shaving my head like I did in 1983. when someone else hurt me this deeply.

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