At first, it's your favorite tshirt. Then it gets old, colors are not as bright... but you still like it, so it's your new pajamas top. Then it gets too many holes and stains, but it's still too cute to be thrown away... so now it's a rag you use to clean the kitchen. It's actually a few of them, as it was a big shirt that you cut into smaller pieces. Then the stains don't wash away anymore, it doesn't clean messes as well as it did, and it looks kind of gross; that's when it gets the title: "trapo de piso." It's now old, broken, stained and not really functional. You actually never think of the "trapo de piso" you have. I mean, it's just a "trapo"... and only use it when there's nothing better at hand. When you are moving into a new place, you look at it, feel like if you had taken better care of it, it would've lasted longer, and realize now it's the time to finally let go of it and get yourself a new rag. Maybe this time you've grown up and chose a rag that didn't start as your favorite tshirt.
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Unknown double life
PoetryUsing poetry and twisting words to describe the ups and downs of a love that never was, but always is.
