Summer Cleaning
“Out with the old
And in with the new”
I hum while tossing my dirty laundry
Into a dollar-store garbage bag.
What’s done is done
And what’s said is said,
And all I can do
Is tidy the mess it left in my bed.
The birds chirp around me,
I’m floating on air!
Love, love, love,
Despair, despair, despair.
I envy the old me,
But I bask in the glory too
Of me now, someone new.
If I had a beer for every time
I switched my personality,
I reckon I’d be drunk.
I fear that maybe, I am now.
I hate how you creep up on me
Everywhere, somehow.
A muse, 2nd muse, maybe 3rd if I’m lucky.
One shot and 4 beers
And I miss how you’d touch me.
Pools, garages, basements! What a thrill!
They all reek of you, yet I relish in the smell.
Love you, hate you
Which will I pick today?
Maybe tomorrow i’ll wake up
With my dirty laundry at your place.
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This was EPIC! I have a tidy up project this weekend and I’ll definitely have this poem in my head.
This is a phenomenal poem. To me, you really capture how it feels to fall back into old patterns because it’s all you know. Excellent!!!