Short Janitor Poems

He's a hard worker,
Charged, Oh! Heavenly laden,
Of stick and broom....

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The overnight janitor inside the Emergency Room, hero to the sick and healer....

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"our budget allows for
one janitor, and that spot
is taken,"

is what he said
before he took one
look at my credentials

"sir, I come to ask
about the teller job,"

I says and he just
leaves

turns around to say

"come back in 25 years"...

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Ernie, the janitor,
swears he saw a ghost
in a suite where he cleans
he believes it to be the spirit
of a man that performed suicide.
He pleads with it, to do him no harm
Ernie's afraid of the spirit in room 501G
but still asks it to say hello to his mother....

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I am the lonesome janitor
   Who keeps these toilets clean.
   So graffiti is not scribbled on my walls
   Not by anyone unseen.
   Nor also for your self esteem
   You maybe think outranks me.
   There's no exception to this rule
    Unless your name is Banksy.

   10/ 20/ 2016....

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Have you ever been..

A Teacher
A Plumber
A Gardener
A Cook
A Janitor
A Housekeeper
A Dog Whisperer
A Poet with books

Have you ever been..

A Performer
A Listener
A Doctor
A Nurse
A Friend
A Lover
A Scientist
A Machinist at work

These are just to name
a few..

Have you ever been..

You.



D.C. 11/24/15...

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Did you know
At the community hall
The janitor cleans
For no pay at all

Quietly cleaning
Day and night 
Crumbs and wrappers 
In his sight 

He never complains 
He just gets on 
Busily cleaning 
Til all is gone 

Modestly staying 
Out of view 
He seeks no praise 
From me or you 

Even leaving behind 
Gifts for us all
Droppings aplenty 
From the rat at the hall...

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What a stockbroker did to a man was humiliating and demeaning.
He constantly laughed at a man because his job involved cleaning.
The stockbroker thought he was better than this man because he was a janitor.
One day he had taken enough of his crap and he knocked the stockbroker to the floor.
Sadly, the janitor was fired for being unruly.
A man lost his job for standing up to a bully....

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Said the rattlesnake to the spider
I've seen you before
The prey smiled
you've been here a while
Conscience clear
nothing to is to feared he surmised

Said the smiling gateman
I've seen these times before
Cat Burglar agreed
I've been here before

Said the late Man
as he took the key
I'm in now
The Janitor  asked 
what took your time
Never lost, but doubt
you take it away...

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a writer must write
a singer must sing
a fighter must fight
a king must be king

a lawyer must litigate
a doctor must care
a mathematician must calculate
a judge must be fair

a preacher must preach
a trucker must haul
a teacher must teach
a baller must ball


a sailor must sail
a janitor must clean
a postman must deliver the mail
a queen must be queen

A person must come to be...

Become...

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Streamy tears from above
Roll down the window pane
In a form of beads
Strung by unseen cords.

Bicycles race furiously
In haste away from the torrents,
The world, in ceaseless motion
Except this poor soul of mine,

With heads bowed down in sorrow,
The masquerade tree lamented,
The white line bore no silver lining.
No, not for me
        
       A flying chalk from the janitor

                Kissed my head....

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I cry,
When I cut and bleed,

I scream,
When soap make suds,

I whimper,
To the sound of flushing toilets,

I thunder,
When my cereals are wet,

I yell,
At seeing a clear drop of water in a mug,

I faint,
In the wettest of weathers,

I curl up in a foetal,
When the janitor mops the floor,

I wish I lived in a desert!
Beside sandy weather,
And have pet vulture,
Picking the best parts of me!
Because my life,
Is not a day at the beach...

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He was is down for a scheduled maintenance.
The talking angels need to refit
and tweak the words he has to speak.
Janitor ghost have to refit new software.
Bare bones need to be given new dance steps;
disjointed poetry taught to walk upright.
Night and day cogs had been turning, turning,
mind oil burning, burning,
but he is doing good; he is just doing fine.
The three Muses and their staff
will get back to you soon 
as they bring him ever so gently 
back on line....

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