clean up

clean up clean up
everybody everywhere
clean up clean up
everybody do your share

tossing out old clothes
ratty shoes
useless artifacts from my past

everything accumulates from the year
building dust in the corners of my room
then, one day, this pile of trivial trinkets threatens to overtake the room

out come the trash bags
extra strength
go through every article i own
every book, shoe, jewelery
paper, artwork, junk
determine what i need
what i'd like to keep
and what i can live without

half my room collected into the garbage
to allow for another year of useless collecting