Image: Clean up by Lemanshots
The cleaners nodded
Satisfaction written in their bizarre minds
They wiped their hands
On grimy rags at jobs completion.
Before them lay the body of the cleansed man.
His soul picked clean like a desert carcass.
In their minds their thoughts drifted
From one to the other.
Challenging thought one
Intriguing thought another.
Exhausting thought the third.
This soul required a major makeover
Clogged to the gunnels
With every vice imaginable.
His grotesqueness they concluded
Highlighted his decline
He was a glutton in all things.
Fine food, fine wine,
His lust for the long legged blonde
The woman he fantasied about
Took extra cleansing
Heavy duty scrubbing
Far more than the usual elbow grease.
In his mind her form was cemented,
Eyes that flashed welcome
Thighs tantalisingly teasing.
They rubbed her out, extracting all she was.
At the jobs conclusion
They collected their spoils
According to their brand of perversion
Retired to shadowy dismal spaces
Where they poured over the man’s folly
Delighting in their own lascivious game.
Written for: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/photo-challenge-100-february-16-2016/
Morpethroad 
Sounds like he got scrubbed good! 😀 Very nice!!
Thanks Joy.
Sounds as if they were cleaners from Hell. Keeping the spoils for their own amusement . . . just like a gang of wayward demons.
Hmm….I think you may be right Cathy, fun to play such an idea……thanks for stopping by.
You’re welcome. I enjoyed the visit. 🙂
This is really quite amazing. I wonder who the cleaners are; what happens to “him” next — scrubbed enough to go up, or still destined to go down. And so on. Thanks for a good write that’s making me think.
Thank you friend. Glad I could make you think. My mind moves in mysterious ways at times.
I’m glad it does!
It tends to like it too
Very decadent creature so suitable for the spoils of vice … what an imaginative invention Micheal, I think a whole story hides behind this piece of verse … so many ideas are there wanting to be elaborated.
Thank you Georgia and you are so right…..there is much to tell.
I like that picture, its very unusual.
I like your take on it too, creepy how they pass though from on to the other. The Despicable Decorators, cleansing one soul at a time. I’m creeping myself out here ffs lol
I can’t imagine you creeping you out Juls….that’s my job…lol….then again maybe I have crept you out. Good for me I say. Have a good day.
Great response Michael! wow – really there is an eerie – almost silently reserved voice when reading this – that paints the picture so clearly …. and how it seems – they seem well, almost harmless …. almost pitying in their duties …. and so … the twisted and darkness of their own characters – feeding their own “depravities” – bloody brilliant; and you’ve chosen well – the words revealing just enough to create the tensions and allow for the mind to wander in question …
great chiller here Michael – so many aspects to consider – wonderful! 🙂
Cheers ~ Pat
Thanks Pat, I think finding different things within a piece of writing to think about and consider is every writers aim. Glad you could see so much. The answers are of course another story or two.
😀 indeed…. stories and stories and more possibilities 😉
This could so easily evolve into a full length story! Very good take on the picture!
Thank you so much. Enjoy your weekend.
You’re welcome and you too!