20151109 (picking up)

Time to think about housecleaning

Not to do any of it just to think

Scattered about my desk scattered

About everywhere including the

Deeded property are what I will

Call tasks a good chunk of the way

To completion that includes 

Cooking a meal for twenty-five

People I don’t know but that’s

Ok I have it on the best of authority

They are children of God and 

That’s enough for me keeps me

From speculating of their formal

Standing on the social register

Who knows where I’ll end up

On that manmade book of life

All that remains is cleaning up

The pots and pans work surfaces

Floor onto which food fell and

Was either recovered in the ten

Second rule or somehow found 

Its way into Loki’s digestive

Tract even if you build a cabinet

Or replaster a wall there’s always

Putting the tools back but I ask 

You put away a hammer a screwdriver

When you’re going to need it in

Less than a day makes no sense

But it’s best to leave it somewhere

You’ll find it again or there’ll be

Far too much looking for it on

The next project and you may 

Tire of the search and begin 

Adapting other tools to the 

Purpose what is a hammer 

But a hard weight on one end 

Of a stick a pipe wrench can 

Save you half a day’s searching 

Likewise a paper clip clamped 

In a visegrip can serve to screw 

In just about anything with a 

Straight slot Phillips screws 

You’ll need a sharp scrap of metal

Again in the vise grip to get the job

Done clothes are a lot like tools

And pots and pans once they’re

Worn they needn’t hang properly

Unless they’ll be worn again soon

What kind of scrambling do you

Think happens in a washer then 

Dryer you better hustle when it

Buzzes else the weight of your 

Jeans will recrush a dress shirt

Socks what the hell underwear 

Pajamas t-shirts the like can

Just as well be put in a crusher 

Till they’re worn again who’s 

Ever been bothered by a wrinkle

In their scivvies now a pimple

On the panty line that’s another 

Thing entirely like I said when I

Started this is just thinking about

Housecleaning not housecleaning

Itself heavens no God forbid

c. J.S.Manista, 2015