Be My Guest

For RDP Tuesday: Housework

Lee Morris -Worlds made in Midjourney

If I lived in a haunted house

and it was stuffed from the basement to the attic with restless spirits and wandering

ghosts, demons with an attitude and boxes of bones hidden in the walls

would I clean it?

Would I paint the rooms and hang curtains from the eyeless window frames?

Would the kitchen be cold or would it be warm? Would there be food in the

cupboards, plates and bowls and cups and saucers stacked neatly behind cabinet

doors?

Would there be meat in the freezer?

If I lived in a haunted house would I tend to the  garden?  Clean the dead leaves from

the fountain?  Would I have a dog named Champ  roaming the grounds?

Would I have a cat with no name   that watched the birds and the mice pick

away at the corpses of my long dead fruit  trees and flowers, shrubs and roses all day

long and far  into the night?

If I lived in a haunted house and I invited your over for tea or pizza or maybe a dinner
by candlelight, would you accept my invitation ? Would you pretend you never got it,
would you burn it? Shred it?
Would you dream about my invitation? Would your dream about me living in a haunted house
stuffed with bodies and bones and ghosts
and a dog named Champ and a cat with no name?
You would.
I’d bet your life on it.

Lee Morris -Worlds made in Midjourney

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