there’s this couple from south chicago. he started out in the garbage business and she was a homemaker for other people in other peoples’ homes.

every morning at four, they got up. he went out to clean the alleys of beverly hills, and she washed yesterday’s caviar, artichoke hearts, and t-bone steak juice out of his stained blue overalls

then she went to work and cleaned the homes of beverly hills and as she worked she dreamed.

at noon, he’d eat his summer sausage sandwich and he’d dream, too.

every evening they dreamed together. yes, they worked as a team and then he made it big, bought the business with their hard saved money and called himself the owner of a sanitation engineering company.

she quit her job and never washed overalls again.  he was busy and stayed away a lot. she made herself busy, somehow.

on a lonely day, she looked out the window and saw a garbage man in stained blue overalls and as she watched she dreamed.