Tagged: laundry

in the middle of

in the middle of
the night in a pandemic,
someone is doing

laundry, the water swishes like
an alarm throughout the building
.
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in the middle of

in the middle of
baking and sewing and getting
our clothes cleaned, perhaps

we are getting back to the
basics, cautious and renewed
.
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sunday morning at

sunday morning at
the laundromat,
we are thrust
into the arms of
jesus for the
love of everlasting
death, through the
suited-up pastor
on the corner tv,
asking us to surround
ourselves only
with good
people to live in
god’s destiny –
a perfect set-up
for facing a load
of dirty laundry
.
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doing laundry, we

doing laundry, we
always dance
the folding of
bedsheets –
for the moments
not caught
on film or gathered
together, corner
to corner, by
ever-changing
pixels, i
have you,
pleating these
memories
.
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we no longer strive

we no longer strive
to become stainless
in each other’s
eyes, not for
a lack of interest
it’s just that the
laundry’s been
tossed together
for too long
.
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when you put on Rosa

when you put on Rosa
Passos
, our clothes
are promptly in
a pile on the
floor, ready to be
separated –
forfeited or
scored, dark
versus light.
there was a time
when you could
not live without
this,
music to do
laundry to
.
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