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Cleaning Up

DLXXX ~> Cleaning Up*

(Opus580 ~> Cleaning Up)

(1)
Were you getting married in the morning,
You clean up your act before break of dawn.
There’s something refreshing about cleaning;
It sends your sins to depths of oblivion
Till you convince yourself they’re not your own:
Cleaning up your act proves hardest to do;
If on failing, you have nowhere to go!
(2)
The whole proves more than the sum of its parts;
Unless you are an old-school bean counter,
To whom one gallon is always four quarts
No matter that you bargain and barter
For options that remain the non-starter:
Cleaning up your act is one thankless task
More so if it entails changing your mask!
(3)
The maladies most difficult to cure
Are those whose symptoms prove most elusive
Since far from obvious they are more obscure
Pinpointing them needs to be invasive
Over and above being persuasive:
One failsafe formula for cleaning up
The hidden sins admits of no road map!
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*Hook image (SunsetOverTheBay4H580.jpg), sequestered uncaptioned, from the Pinterest Seascapes cyber collection reached my email inbox by gratis subscription.
©(2019), Constancio S Asumen Jr ~> https://allpoetry.com/poem/14726843-DLXXX---gt--Cleaning-Up--by-Ace-Lilacs.  

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