there’s a gang, is that

the right collective noun for 

painters and decorators?

all Polish boys, grafters, 

noisy, polite to a man, they’re 

doing up Joe’s old place

next door but one,

for three weeks now

seven days a week, like

busy little white chalk mice,

obliviously painting over 

Joe and Barbara’s life

stopping only for cans of

Red Bull and roll-ups.

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