Poem #4

The Meaning of Clean


What is it like to be clean?

Are you clean when you get out of the shower

Are you clean when you work

What about when you play

Does cleanliness matter

What about taking a shit

Is that considered a form of a shower

Releasing body waste into the free earth

The places it goes

The places it begins

The places it ends up

The animals that survive off of the shit


What is the meaning of clean?

Is the last day that you are clean is when you were born

What about in the sexual content

What about in the business aspect

How many people consider themselves clean

Who are the ones drawing the lines of cleanliness

The word clean means nothing to me

I am always trying to be clean

At the same time I always find my hands a little dirty

In the end the meaning of clean is what you make it out to be

If you believe you are clean then that is all that should matter

Not what someone else thinks

Just what does the meaning of clean mean to you