this house is a festering hole
walls racked with creeping gout
floors stained and crusted with soil
varicose veins showing
above skirting boards
carpet dandruff a disgrace
mould festering in corners
water damage every time it rains
real estate agent says call the landlord
landlord says if you complain you pay
so we salvage what we can
wading through the rental debris
with a pervasive sense of ennui
furniture dented and battered
with a pervasive sense of ennui
furniture dented and battered
wall hangings stained and matted
ceiling buckled and thin
creatures scuttling within
light bulbs blown
smoke detectors gone
windows smashed
letterbox obliterated
fuse box disintegrated
fuse box disintegrated
yet we call this home
its always been this way
unable to afford anything better
in this dissolute den of disease
even rats would feign to stay
even rats would feign to stay
© shaun patrick green 2011
squalor
ReplyDeleteforever
in the eyes of the beholder,
a dread carpet underfoot, a chimney caked with soot
the drain that doesn't, and the ceiling that mustn't...
the street with pretty pictures painted in rubber
beneath
the window that isn't
the precious light incandescent
illumination present, perhaps for a short while
into the future
the past we plunder, filter the debris
until dawn