Is Anything Clean in my Drawers?
Is Anything Clean in my Drawers?
I get up from my desk to leave
happen to look down and see dirt
on my white with a painted sea scene shirt
the I-thought-was-clean shirt
I put on first thing this morning shirt
the inherited-from-my-mother shirt
the purchased-in-Cape-Cod shirt
the Where on Earth? tagged shirt
I wonder whose dirt is on the shirt
I take off the dirty white shirt
put in the laundry basket
say good morning to Mother
put on another shirt a pink shirt
the mastiff-drinking-wine design shirt
the Wine takes the bitch out of me shirt
ink-stains all over the back shirt
the a-pen-got-into-the-washer-and-dryer shirt
that pen splotched lots of shirts
I wonder if I have any clean shirts
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best title ever
a great poem in the genre
“ain’t life like that”
I love the voice and sense of humor here–I could definitely hear you reading this. Love the use of repetition as a percussive punch
agree with Shaun: I’d like to hear you reading especially the tongue-twisting “the a-pen-got-into-the-washer-and-dryer shirt / that pen splotched lots of shirts”