Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 33 – CLEAN & SHARP

Spick and span
Feeling better afterwards
My weekly cleaning
Everything in its right place
Tidy place, peace in mind

Sharpen the knives
Before cutting the steak
Thin slices of steak
Goes with chips and salad
Ah heaven, our Friday meal

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Liudvika comes for her weekly cleaning
She has her own key so she doesn’t ding
She dons her overalls and inspects what to do
But first she looks out to have a lovely view

She looks at the grimy windows and procrastinates
Her employers are lucky, she’s such a cheapskate
Her tongue so sharp and starts complaining
Then her mood changed and started singing

Of how poor she is then went out for a smoke
She thought of her country and her menfolk
The flare of the match lit up her face
She admires the vase and put it back in place

She looks at her fingernails, they needed cleaning
She looks at her hair, it needed bleaching
She starts attacking the war on dirty windows
They’ve got to be cleaned before it snows

Swish, slosh as the water goes, then wipes them dry
She made a sigh and then looks up the sky
One round won with windows at the ground floor
And she knows she has to tackle the floors

She deserves a break, so she rings up her friends
They talk about shopping and their boyfriends
She carries on cleaning until she’s done the hours
Such is the life of Liudvika, not sweet but sour

For: Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 33 – CLEAN & SHARP