I will be your beast of burden

Things I have carried since Tuesday afternoon (with minor poetic license and some gaps):

1. Ten bookboxes out of the corner to make room for a rug in the living room
   
2. Ten bookboxes (same) back into the corner once the rug was down
   
3. Nine broken-down dish crate boxes into the basement
   
4. Eight armloads of flattened and rolled-up packing paper into the basement
   
5. Seven swans a-swimming (er, one cat a-biting)
   
6. Six boxes of old papers and magazines from one corner of the basement to another
   
7. Five suitcases from the basement to the 3rd floor
   
8. Four book boxes from the 1st & 2nd to the 3rd floor
   
9. Three loads of laundry from the 2nd floor to the basement and back
   
10. Two tall IKEA Billy bookcases from 1st to 2nd floor (one corner, one narrow -- corner units is HEAVY)
    
11. Two more bags of trash into our slowly-filling (unattached) garage
    
12. One microwave that I used to reheat leftover Chinese food.