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Jan 2020
Cigarettes and bleach
Scents both clashing and fitting.

When life's continuance
Is the cleaning of
Public spaces

When wages wilt
The satisfaction
Of a job well done

Why wouldn't you
Ruin your lungs
A slow death made faster
A tortured life made shorter.
Wrote this at a cafe when I reflected on the recoil I felt as the janitor did his job.
Joseph Rice
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Joseph Rice  32/M/Virginia
(32/M/Virginia)   
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