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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.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

  

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