Caren Krutsinger Poet Rhyme

Why We Do Not Clean

Why don’t we hastily clean that last room, I hear my traitor side say.
You moron, I’ve already cleaned two inches of kitchen. I need to play.
Now, says the intense voice, unfriendly, and decisively hard.
Forgetting I am no cleaner or cook, now that I am a bard.
Ouch! Yells my right ankle.  Gone is my right foot, thanks to arthritis.
What will you do next to me, voice?  Issue me a bit of bursitis?

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M. L. Kiser November 27, 2018 at 9:22 PM Why waste time cleaning when you are providing the world with such poetic joy? Caren Krutsinger November 27, 2018 at 10:22 PM M.L., you are delighting me. I can barely keep up with all of these lovely comments, but I am smiling so big my face is cracking in half. A car could fall in my face and be lost forever.

P.S. Awtry November 25, 2018 at 6:55 PM I too like the line “now that I am a bard” I laugh at meal times that we can not eat poems:D Caren Krutsinger November 25, 2018 at 9:42 PM If I could eat poems, I would be clearly and completely enthralled and full of enthusiastic love for poetry. Wait, I already am!

Sherry Asbury November 25, 2018 at 2:49 PM Adorable! Reason I do not clean...have broken my left foot and several toes several times...have a caregiver to do it!! Caren Krutsinger November 25, 2018 at 3:21 PM Aha! Nice idea. I do not know if it is worth borrowing though. UGH!

Mahtab Bangalee November 25, 2018 at 5:02 AM interesting Caren Krutsinger November 25, 2018 at 10:23 AM It might be that you do not love the joy of cleaning also?

Ann Gilmour November 25, 2018 at 1:49 AM Haha, another gem Caren, I especially love the line ending 'now that I am a bard' for at my age there is little time left for housework!! Kindest thoughts Ann x Caren Krutsinger November 25, 2018 at 10:24 AM HAHAHA I am rapidly thinking I might want to age one of these days. Thank you for the stop by.