Cleaning Houses

By mcscraic

Sat, 20 Dec 2025
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Cleaning Houses  

by Paul McCann

 

We drove for an hour and worked for three more

Cleaning the oven and mopping the floor.

Vacuuming their rooms upstairs and downstairs ,

wiping the windows and all of the chairs .

Washing and scrubbing all the walls as well ,

Every stair was cleaned where the dust had fell ,

The showers and toilets where sparkling clean

There were two of us in our cleaning team

We never stopped , until the job was done

we did our best but you just can’t please some,

she questioned our hours and the things we did

I mean like, who was she trying to kid .

Her whole house was as clean as clean could be

and if you ask me , she got it for free .

but she just moaned and groaned , the greedy bitch   

We clean houses for the comfortably rich.

 

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Certificate 15
Poem
Srories About Everyday Life
Miscellaneous

Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

That was my job cleaning houses back in the late 90s and early 2000, so your poem was relatable for me, though the people I worked for were very kind and said I'd done a great job. 

I liked the rhythm and rhyme in your poem Paul.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by mcscraic on

Thanks Jennifer for your welcome comment . It's nice to hear from you , generally speaking most people are nice  . Those who complain and don't want to pay are in the minority . Leaving a home as if there your own is the key . I felt the need to write about daily every things .

Kind regards 

Paul