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Benchmarks
11:27
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Benchmarks (11:27)
Salt is essential
In a precarious position
Having a pet, receiving government benefits,
and having young children
Systematically denied access to a timely remedy
A bitter experience of making complaints
Greeted at the door by a wafting mixture
of bleach, Pine O Cleen and Ajax
Feed the harmful bacteria and microbes in the gut
Stick to the 80/20 rule and you'll be good to go
One in five live with mould, flooding or leaking
One in four suffer ongoing problems with pests,
including cockroaches, moths and ants
It's hard to imagine a product or service
this poor in any other sectors
As it stands I have one basket of dirty laundry
It’s now a liability, not an ambition
It’s an anachronism in an age
when nothing remains permanent
Pseudonyms are used to protect
the confidentiality of survey respondents
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Stark
13:03
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Stark (13:04)
Some days I’m fighting for the duration
Staring in the bathroom mirror
To observe my own face flushing
There’s something fundamentally demeaning
That comes with this implied taunt
To its captive audience
What I am worried about
is the dill plant on my second-floor windowsill
(burn your incense) *text in red
Asking permission to change the showerhead
On my hands and knees picking up bits of fluff
and it's not about the germ factor
"Clean house, clear head"
A house full of clutter, dirty dishes, and cat hair forming tumbleweeds
Drywall that doesn’t belong to us
Focus more on yourself and your living quarters
Those you can control
We want to make irreversible choices
about wall fixtures
and rash decisions at the animal shelter
Talking helped
Acknowledgement helped
Medication helped
Substances helped
Exposure helped
Friends helped
I fall down
I get up
I know that I’ll fall down again
Sometimes I nail it, and other times I stumble
And I’ll continue to
They don’t want to own something
But they don’t want to live in a home
That’s owned by someone else
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