Dust

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Hiding behind files
Worn with age
Creeping inside kettle pots
Long abandoned with disuse
And lying under beds
Hole riddled by termites

They gander from spider webs
Soft fluffiness on thin strands
They huddle in dark corners
Unnoticed by all who pass
They live everywhere and yet
Invisible to all

Only when the vacuum appears
They squeal and flee their homes
Mow they dcrambke exitedly
Those clumps of greyness
Swatted by the feather duster
They fly up high, free

Into the yawning abyss of the bin

Poor dust

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