then the man of the household
is not a mirror reflection of his waste
nor the previous occupants'
soiled rugs, crumpled wrappers,
it is a promotion of the work
that has yet to be done
and the acknowledgment
of the approaching decades
necessary to undo all that had been done
when the house was neglected
when the house wasn't ours
to live in or maintain
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