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World Peace, Jobless Washer Woman

mark Season 15 Episode 26

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Poems, mine and theirs

World Peace, Jobless Washer Woman

World Peace is a laundress 

With many hungry little bastards back home.

She will take in our dirty laundry

Bleach it sparkling white, raise its colors

As long as we hold her contract faithfully.

 

The only dirty laundry left lying around

Will belong to those who refuse her,

Who risk falling by the wayside, pest-stricken

Compared to her clients enchanted by her sweet honesty.

 

Say no and the house will stink, 

Ugly to the eye, shunned by others;

And projects will fail,

And dreams become nightmares,

Whatever you do.

  

Pay the pennies she asks for,

And the household will sparkle from her healing touch:

Your children, by good sleep refreshed,

Your servants, proud of their new livery,

Will be glad to serve.


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