Best Housecleaning Poems

I pick up the dirty ashtrays of my anger.

My grief is a cloth diaper;

With it, I clean the table of my heart....

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My house smells
Of furniture polish,
Of floor cleaners and wax
The rugs are free of dog hair
And the kitchen sparkles.
There are clean sheets
And a gleaming tub,
And the floors shine!
I, older now and
Never the best housekeeper,
Bow down to the hard working
Women who come and
Scrub and vacuum and polish,
Often...

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little did we know
there’s no such thing as perfection
the more we’d grasp for it
the further it got away

perfection in one area
meant neglect elsewhere
why did nobody tell us
life is all about balance

just trying to give our best
is all we can do
never achieving illusive perfection
but balancing what’s...

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Every year I think 
about starting a house cleaning 
business in the summer
because those people
make more money
an hour
than I do

And then I
remember my 
complete aversion
to cleaning.

I would not want
to spend my days
doing it even if
I got paid a million
dollars a day,

so 
that's
the end 
of that...

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