Poetry Friday. I was busy yesterday.
Picture No. 1 is the floor after I mopped. Picture No. 2 is the floor about an hour later. And that's on a good day.
My kitchen floor
A lament. Of Jennifer.
Oh floor, oh white tile floor, how you enticed me
sunlight sparkled on your surface
your clean expanse gleamed
and the real estate agent remarked upon your beauty
and now, you defy me daily
my enemies rise up against me
children drop food with delight
smashing it into the grout
the dog sheds one thousand black hairs
with a single step
rain turns the yard to mud
brown footprints multiply
Daily and nightly I sweep you
I labor with mop and bucket in vain
For cleanliness turns to filth
and my toil is neverending
We eat not of the food that falls to the floor,
for dust and dirt do cover it
avert your eyes, oh guests
look away from my shame
I will fight this battle daily
despite your mocking, dirt-attracting ways
White tile is deceitful and beauty is vain
And pursuing perfection makes a woman insane
*Thanks to the Psalmists, whose form and voice I'm mimicking. And to Devon, for I can only assume that reading her Psalm (a real and beautiful one, not a silly one) a few weeks ago is why it popped into my head to complain about my kitchen floor in poetic fashion.
7 comments:
Very well said!
Jen, I feel your pain! It feels so futile to clean the floor, but it does look great for at least for a few minutes. :)
I have the same floor, the same problem and the same lament. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!
Glad I'm not alone in my pointless quest for clean floors. I'm especially annoyed by how quickly the kids' feet get black even if I "just" mopped.
I've given up. I have an old, old house. The wood floor in the kitchen has DEEP grooves in it that catch everything. the finish is either gone are never was, so I can't just mop it. I can't put anything over it because of all the gaps in the boards and huge holes, seriously, you could drop a dollars worth of change in one of them!
I love it, love it love it! The white tile floor is so enticing to the casual home buyer and then... Well you said it all.
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