(based on suggestions from @eglantinescake and @SeanMElliott)
Stuck between a rut and a fresh place
Crush embarrassed water between fists
I've never lost a stain, I can bash
Every damp sock clean like fish on a rock
No one can answer every girl correctly
Can rinse down planets for her or
Extract powdered star granules
Retract nerves on the spin cycle and
Obey rules of romantic thermodynamics
Maybe on first listen, everyone
Asks the same soggy questions. But
No load is the same, no atom spins its
Course to clothesline soaked and alone
Every smooth sheet is a wet dream
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Today's poem is based on suggestions from two peeps:
- @eglantinescake: "I want you to write a poem about laundry."
- @SeanMElliott: "Science speed dating?"
Today's poem didn't go where I intended. After Penni's suggestion, I was intending a gentle, cool poem about the soothing aspects of doing the washing (I find it soothing, anyway, especially hanging it out). But when science speed dating was added into the mix, a kind of frustration crept into the words (I also find doing the laundry frustrating. DOONA COVERS are so unwieldy, argh). It's odd when words won't behave themselves for you.
Also, today's poem is another acrostic. Not that I'm obsessed by acrostics or anything.
2 comments:
Two lines I particularly like:
"romantic thermodynamics"
(There's another poem or prose piece just waiting to unpack that one.)
And the last line. Lovely. ;)
S
I thought you would like 'romantic thermodynamics' :)
I agree, too - I need more hours in the day to flip some ideas out of their little cameos.
Thanks, for all of that.
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