Tidying is begun
Two chairs and a desk
Offered to Freely Given
Two chairs (IKEA)
Brought from the house
To begin a new life
Cobwebs and dust
Removed
From walls and ceilings
Diamonds and Rust
Played
On the iPod stereo
The concrete floor
Once more is visible
As is the easel and stepladder
How difficult change is
Simply to rearrange
Is one heck of a toil
How hard
To wash away those past years
To open afresh for new memories
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There is a good deal
Of tidying to be done
Trouble is
As is often the case
Where to begin
How to make a plan
When no plan
Seems to be forthcoming
Where goes the dynamism
From those previous summers
You know
With exhibitions
Of paintings and sculptures
Using driftwood
For decoration
So much since has entered
Which now must be
Put out to pasture
Or taken to refuse
One wonders
How do they do this
In New York apartments
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But I am pretty sure
He would have smoked Woodbines
Or Park Drive, on his allotment
Beside the Humber Estuary
Those flats or smooth slopes
Contoured by the tide
Giving a certainty more even
Than the drag-in, followed by
The puff-out, of cigarette smoke
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There is a man on the boundary
Just in front of square
Root yet to get off the mark
Just go with a bit of experience
At least they have had some success
It can help you as a player
Giving it that extra bit of fizz
Sometimes causes trouble
Nearly. Nearly.
He survives
He is young
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