Sunday, January 30, 2011

laundry

The laundry needs doing
by which I mean
there’s washing
and hanging
and clothes to come in
so instead of doing it
I google laundry

discovering
my favourite semiotician
Roalnd Barthes
was hit by a laundry van
and a month later
‘succumbed to his injuries’
and died.

I’m thinking
of doing a PhD about it.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for all the lovely poems.

    The one about Frederique makes me feel quite teary.

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  2. oh HEH (speaking as someone who processes a horrible lot of laundry personally).
    Among several, I love the poem about the endsister. Your children are just scrumptious, they are.

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