Housekeeping

The windows were cleaned every Saturday
with raki, since no one drank in the house
sparkling, boozy antiseptic control
 to view the world from high ground

Keeping up appearances and shining armors
compulsory liturgy of ceremony were
benedictions to sustain a life
drowning in bad Karma

Order and ritual, painkiller and torture
slavery and freedom at once
A house story, my story, feet planted in the basement
canopy never breaking the greenhouse's ceiling