The Cleaning Service Never Showed Up

The Cleaning Service Never Showed Up

A Poem by Pete
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I’ve always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself. - Hugh Downs

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Starved dirty old man wizard casting a ...

the dirty old man
stepped from his dirty old house
some roaring church mouse



© 2024 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
“Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.” - Thoreau

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Added on April 30, 2024
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..