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Scrubbed Fresh

March 1, 2010
By hellosmoke1 SILVER, New City, New York
hellosmoke1 SILVER, New City, New York
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Favorite Quote:
“I used to say, somebody should do something about that, but then I realized, I am somebody.”


Scrubbed Fresh I sit and wait,
As if sailors use me as their bait.
The janitor’s peculiar machine,
Slides smoothly on me for protection.
Like a chubby man’s plate being nice and clean,
I mirror people’s reflection.

Scrubbed Fresh I am granted with no luck,
In this bathroom I am stuck.
I asked to be pretty and polished,
That is my only law.
But it seems my rule is abolished,
My floor is nothing but flaw.

Scrubbed Fresh I stare straight,
Not realizing I lay where they urinate.
Muddy shoes stain my face.
The selfish don’t seem to care,
That a poor man will clean this place,
When they won’t even be breathing this air.

Scrubbed Fresh is what I used to be,
They were careless and polluted me.
I used to have a shiny top,
It seems that filth was my fate.
And now the janitor is coming to mop.
Scrubbed Fresh I sit and wait.

The author's comments:
This is from the perspective of a clean bathroom floor.

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on Mar. 4 2010 at 11:14 am
AbbotRabbit GOLD, Abolana, District Of Columbia
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This poem has great flow and insight.<br /> I really enjoyed it.<br /> Lovely poem darling =]<br /> -Please check out the works that I have posted on here it would be highly appreciated and I think you would greatly enjoy them, Thankk youz-<br /> XxIll tell you Im an orphan after you meet myy familyXx

This poem has great flow and insight.

I really enjoyed it.

Lovely poem darling =]

-Please check out the works that I have posted on here it would be highly appreciated and I think you would greatly enjoy them, Thankk youz-

XxIll tell you Im an orphan after you meet myy familyXx