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THE
CLEANER
I
don’t try to unpick your brain
so
take your jemmy away from mine.
Can’t
see my floor? I like it
like that.
Nothing
is rubbish. I call this
neat.
I
have names, aliases, doubles,
and
watch my food by reading labels.
A
CD encyclopaedia
tells
what TV don’t give away,
which
ain’t so much, you don’t need words:
celebrities
haunt all neighbourhoods.
Reality
is at no removes;
show
me a face, I’ll find where it lives.
I’ve
videotapes of car crashes.
At
disasters it’s me what watches.
In
emergencies I am ahead.
I’ve
a holster, the professional kit.
But
I did not do that piece of work.
I
was seen with children down the park.
I
don’t try to unpick your brain
so
take your jemmy away from mine.
Alan
Marshfield
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