who
outlasts the elderly
couple,
childless and old,
cleaning
for decades their floors,
making
the beds,
doing the wash.
becoming
the family she never
had,
being there to listen,
and at times
hold.
and now in the end
inheriting
all the things she once
cleaned,
at last lying
in her own crowded
room, at rest,
with no need to work
anymore.
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