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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?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 11/27/2018 9:22:00 PM
Why waste time cleaning when you are providing the world with such poetic joy?
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/27/2018 10:22:00 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.
Date: 11/25/2018 6:55:00 PM
I too like the line “now that I am a bard” I laugh at meal times that we can not eat poems:D
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/25/2018 9:42:00 PM
If I could eat poems, I would be clearly and completely enthralled and full of enthusiastic love for poetry. Wait, I already am!
Date: 11/25/2018 2:49:00 PM
Adorable! Reason I do not clean...have broken my left foot and several toes several times...have a caregiver to do it!!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/25/2018 3:21:00 PM
Aha! Nice idea. I do not know if it is worth borrowing though. UGH!
Date: 11/25/2018 5:02:00 AM
interesting
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/25/2018 10:23:00 AM
It might be that you do not love the joy of cleaning also?
Date: 11/25/2018 1:49:00 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
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/25/2018 10:24:00 AM
HAHAHA I am rapidly thinking I might want to age one of these days. Thank you for the stop by.

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