Cleaning the Closet and the Inseparable Pairings

If I sound a little loopy today, it's because I had little sleep last night due to my daughter's birthday party/slumber party.  Pardonnez-moi in advance.

Zzzzzzz...Wha?!...Oh yeah.

Anyway, The March Challenge prompt is on the subject of cleaning one's closets.  Writer's Island's prompt is 'inseparable.'  I wrote the Writer's Island prompt this AM (quatrains and couplets) but The March Challenge poem (a pantoum) was written a few years ago, and first appeared in Sol Magazine and then later, in my book Mugging for the Camera.  It just seemed kind of apropos.

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Joined at the Hip

If split up, the damage could be irreparable.

These things are completely and wholly inseparable…

burger & fries,

chips & fish,

cup & saucer,

spoon & dish,

bacon & eggs,

sugar & spice,

bread & butter,

naughty & nice,

peas & carrots,

cookies & cream,

salt & pepper,

balance & beam,

knife & fork,

pb & j,

salsa & chips,

night & day,

spaghetti & meatballs,

crackers & cheese,

paper & pencil,

thank you & please,

summer & winter,

spring & fall,

Yogi & BooBoo,

bat & ball.

The pairs above are kind of ‘joined at the hip.’

Just keep ‘em together – that is my best tip.

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Closet Avoidance

I am going to clean out my closet.

Who knows what strange things I might find?

Perhaps in a trunk, I'll find a lost sock

or a book or a hint of the past.  Who knows?  Certainly not I.

Who knows what strange things I might find?

I'm fearful I might turn up a ghost (in a matter of speaking)

or a book or a hint of the past.  Who knows?  Certainly not I.

I'm a serial packrat and an unrepentant procrastinator; my family is baffled.

I'm fearful I might turn up a ghost (in a matter of speaking.)

Maybe I really should put the whole thing off - for now.

I'm a serial packrat and an unrepentant procrastinator; my family is baffled.

I am going to clean out my closet.

Maybe tomorrow.

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