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Lavatories

Because I clean the lavatories,

I’m considered quite low grade;

In the last place on the list,

Overworked and underpaid.

 

Though down the pecking order,

At the thin end of the scale,

You rely upon my labours

With my brushes and my pail.

 

Do toffs and chief executives

Have to sanitise this mess?

I should get higher wages

Than the barons of the press.

 

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