Packing up from another motel room

I remember why it was I bought a home.

Free breakfast came with juice and waffles

The eggs are hardboiled — what a groan.

Lumpy beds, hard beds, sometimes beds just right.

Sing hosannas when the guests

Have free access to a pool.

Packing up from another motel room

Searching my suitcase for clean underwear

If it doesn’t rain, I might camp out…

I know a campground with showers there.

I can find a laudromat just most anywhere

When I get some time, I know what I’d better do

Get myself over there and wash a load or two.

First and last months deposits…

Can you lease six months or a year?

Don’t bring animals to our establishment.

We run a clean place around here.

Don’t even think of buying new

My credit broke with the giant tree…

But cash will get another motel room.

It takes four DMS articles to rent a room

With just the basic walls and a tub

A bed with clean sheets and some towels

A generic room within which to sleep.

Two more articles will buy meals at McDonalds

And a table with internet for free.

My pets are boarded out with family

My library sits in storage now

My fingers will still type,

I’ve work that will pays as well

I can rent a roof most anyplace

That I can find a motel.