Housework my bane
Yet it’s high on the list
Of things I’d rather do
Than talk to you
Or rather, listen
All you need are my ears
But they’re too clogged to hear
So pause the reruns of your reality show
Don’t send me photos of your reflection in a dirty mirror
And don’t offer me anymore half-price junk
I’ve let you fill my trash with donations enough
By the way, I’m about to divert your gifs to spam
Today, as I clean the stove and scrub the floor
I map out my escape from the county clan
If I move, will you still burrow under my skin?
If I get this off my chest, can I have your mantra:
“No toxicity in 2022”
Even if that includes you?
This seems disjointed because it’s about not one person, but two
Better to kill two rants with one post.
Lizi Rose 
Hopefully, both will read it and get the message.
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It would set quite the mood for Thanksgiving…
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I love the way you rant and clean house!
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thank you! Whew, the house is tidier than my mind, that’s for sure!! 😅
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Maybe you even killed a bird you don’t know who wandered too close to the rant!
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hopefully I can keep ranting in anonymity, or else I’ll have to start writing “fiction”…
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Oh how I love how you’re cleaning out your physical, social, spiritual, emotional, and mental houses! Now, talk about clutter reduction going into 2022! 🥰👏🏼🤗✨😘 Woooo-hooooo! 🥳
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Kym!! Only you could put a positive spin on my negative mindset!! Thank you for that. Nothing but growth for us in 2022 😁🧡
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Oh girlfriend, cleaning out is positive. You just didn’t realize it yet. But now that you do, your growth for 2022 or better yet, for the rest of this year is unlimited. Embrace it my friend! 🤗💐🥰
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I simply adore your perspective 😁 Yes I am really trying to embrace this mindset !!
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I appreciate you LiziRose. We are all a work in progress, and it’s not easy trying to remain positive when you’re in the midst of bird poop! LOL 😲
Take it one day, and one step at a time. And by all means, don’t sweat the small stuff!!! Have a FANtabulous week my friend! 🦋🥂💖
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clean it all out and rant away!
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The house is clean at least 😁
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Sounds like two people have caused you to be in quite the mood. Glad cleaning – and ranting – is a great outlet for you!
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yes it’s a blessing to have the outlet of writing. My mood always improves after I put it into words 🙂
Thanks for stopping by!
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nothing like getting two for the price of one – here’s to a toxicity free 2022…
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Cheers to that!! 🙂
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That’s a beautiful poem to vent one’s frustrations. Now if we are too polite to ask them to go away in real life, we can write about it (with private information omitted) to let the world see. Yes, it is true. Sometimes toxic personality is really annoying, but we just can say “no” to their face. I know somebody who just can’t stop talking. I also know a couple who’s constantly arguing and who want to involve other people in their argument. It is very annoying.
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thank you, and I’m so glad you understand my need to vent. I’m either too polite or too afraid of confrontation to tell people how I feel, even people I’m close to.
This couple who is always arguing and trying to drag others into it…yikes. My guess is they want you to choose a side in the argument which is stressful. Sometimes the drama can be entertaining or interesting, until one day it’s just tooooo much. Especially if it’s causing us stress.
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You are very talented at poetry and prose! Even a subject such as this one- you turn it into poetry!!!! Thank you for this! I really enjoyed the mixture of both lightheartedness and seriousness of this. It made it so interesting!
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Thank you Tamara! I don’t know why, but when I’m in a bad mood it feels easier or more natural to write poetry. When I’m in positive mood I can only write prose. I wonder why.
Anyways, I’m relieved that this post doesn’t seem totally negative 🙂
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Also your art is 👏👏👏👏
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Now you are just being too kind!! 🧡
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Nope, I agree I love the art accompanying the rant 😁👍
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Thank you so much Matt, that means a lot coming from you!!
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Because I’m an artist ?
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Yes I always see you posting your drawings 😁
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Great poem!!!!!! Yes.
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thank you! 🙂🧡
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The idiom “to clean house,” is interesting although it applies to organizations where people get fired. I guess you can’t fire chatterboxes if they don’t work for you. I think Alice through the looking glass had a problem with Jabberwocky. I guess she never did discover the house-cleaning-catharsis rant that you do so well. I’ve been trying to hire Mary Poppins who can clean a room and a psyche with magic. And she does her Jabberwocky gracefully with the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious song (Richard M. Sherman / Robert B. Sherman).
Maybe Bob Dylan has the answer, sort of. “You don’t have to be a fair weather bane to know which way the windbag is blowing… ‘the answer, my friend, is bloviating in the wind”…”
Right on, rant on. Thanks.
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Okay, someone’s killing more than just two birds with one stone! 😉 Literal Gold!
Here’s to a 2022 that’s free of clutter and toxicity. Lovely “rant.”
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Hah, thank you my friend! Nothing like a good rant to clear out the mind!!
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