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:

Debbie Diesen said...

Lovely poem.

Penthe said...

Thanks for all the lovely poems.

The one about Frederique makes me feel quite teary.

genevieve said...

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.