Irascible broom
incontestable
unrepentantly memorable
steely malfeasance merrily jacked
it sweeps you
to roll-away cottages
from vagabond bridges
you clean up the messes
but there's no cleaning up what you see.
Corseted mop
sneeringly puckers
paints with clear water
squeezes the brown from the tube
picture goes muddy - what's lifted and deposited
confused.
Featherdustbrush
scours off the surface of the world
light into particles
taking the gray off the wood and the mantles
makes them older somehow.
Impossible vacuum
vanquishing nose hair
bashing the leg on the lounge chair
making the building shake
ungluing the cat.
And the trash collecting
never stops
it's not even who they are
the ugly them, in a box
but what is foreign.
Soapsuds in the basement
scum lines on the wall
the wheel keeps turning endless like TV
the baskets always full
the ghost sits on a stool
forever laughing.
Acid & elbows
acid & knees
and water
hands for the sake of debris
window-streaked rainbows
window-streaked rainbows
other people's toilet bowls
don't say a thing about them
you don't already know.
You wax the floor poetic
scraping tarnish off the day
the shine off of the grease
the shine off of the grease
leaving only the nothing of love behind.
