LAUNDRY

Cold air rushed up both sleeves of the short-sleeve shirt while looking over the metal box scuffed and dented from opening and reopening after shutting the lid and opening and reopening after shutting the lid and opening and reopening the metal box scuffed and dented from opening and reopening the cold air of the garage opening and reopening starting and restarting loading and reloading dirty clothes dirty socks dirty underwear dirty short-sleeve shirts where cold air rushed up both sleeves of the short-sleeve shirt dirty short-sleeve shirt while looking over the metal box scuffed and dented from opening and reopening after shutting the lid and opening and reopening after shutting the lid and opening and reopening the metal box scuffed and dented from opening and reopening.


Cold air rushed down the collar of the short-sleeve shirt while kneeling down on the concrete floor of the garage to check the status of the leaking water from under the wash it was coming out from under the wash had been coming out from under the wash for load upon load of dirty clothes dirty socks dirty underwear dirty short-sleeve shirts where cold air rushed down the collar of the short-sleeve shirt dirty short-sleeve shirt while kneeling down on the concrete floor of the garage to check the status of the leaking water from under the wash it was coming out from under the wash had been coming out from under the wash for load upon load of dirty clothes.


Cold air rushed through hair sweaty hair dirty hair graying hair graying sweaty dirty hair that the cold air rushed through opening and reopening the side patio door onto the side yard on the side of the yard on the side of some side of some world siding and residing on some side of some world where the cold air rushed through hair sweaty hair dirty hair graying hair sweaty dirty hair that cold air rushed through on some side of some world some where just when carrying out another pan another rolling pan stained from old paint from old rooms inside outside pouring out the leaking water from under the wash coming out from under the wash coming out from the rolling pan stained from old paint from old rooms inside outside pouring out the leaking water from under the wash coming out from under the wash coming out from the rolling pan stained from old paint from old rooms.


Nothing doing nothing a coming by happens to be coming by if and only if a coming by happens to be coming by just in time for a sinking feeling could have poured it all into the sink it never all goes in the sink never all with the opening and reopening after shutting the lid shutting the faucet after the running and rerunning of the water running under the sink under the kitchen under the house under the wash leaking water from under the wash coming out from under the wash coming out from the rolling pan stained from old paint from old rooms inside outside into mud from dirty clothes into water into mud from dirty clothes into dirty hair into graying into sweating into dirty hair into dirty clothes into dirty hair into muddy hair into out of opening reopening from inside to outside into mud.




- Max Stoltenberg