<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=528076" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Washing Windows</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your mother used to sit on the window <br>Ledge of the tenement building and <br>Wash the windows of each of the rooms. <br>She’d push back the shutters and just <br>Sit there with a bucket of warm water <br>And a cloth and wash away. You were <br>Always afraid she’d lean too far back <br>And fall out and down to the ground <br>Several storeys below with a heavy crash <br>And break bones or neck or maybe die. <br>But she’d just sit there her legs holding <br>Onto the wall beneath her and push her <br>Right hand holding the damp cloth <br>Over the glass while her left hand held <br>The metal bucket tight swishing the warm <br>Water as she moved back and forth like <br>Some lone trapeze artist on the high wire <br>Without apparent fear or knowledge of <br>Was going on in the street below with the <br>Passing of the walking dead as Father used <br>To say and Mrs Febrile sitting on her window <br>Ledge with her daughter watching gossiping <br>And nosing about who did what to whom <br>While all the while you were frightened of <br>Your mother slipping out the window waving <br>Her hands and arms as she fell to her doom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=528076" data-title="Washing Windows de Terry Collett" data-description="Your mother used to sit on the window Ledge of the tenement building and Wash the windows of each of the rooms. She’d push back the shutters and just Sit there with a bucket of warm water And a cloth and wash away. You were Always afraid s..."></div> </div> </div>

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