This Mop and Bucket--By Paul Brookes--England

This Mop and Bucket

are poetry to me.

My pen is a mop

I stick in a bucket

of disinfectant floor cleaner

pull out mop sodden

with words and splash

them backwards and forwards

slop lines one after the other

Until the floor fair shines,

My mop is dry, needs another dip.

I squeeze out the gunk

back into the bucket.

More the floor shines,

dirtier the bucketful gets.

A good poem is a clean floor.

Paul Brookes is a shop assistant, after employment as a security guard, postman, admin. assistant, lecturer, poetry performer with “Rats for Love.”  His work is included in Rats for Love: The Book, (Bristol Broadsides, 1990) and in his first chapbook The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). A list of all his chapbooks can be found at www.amazon.com