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Drying
Old woman's knickers
hanging on the line
the same pair washed every day
now she knows there's no-one
gonna see them again
I wonder when she realised
her last time was the last time
and how much it hurt to know
that part of her life was over
But then maybe
she was already dead inside
from the waist up
or the head down
and got left behind
just waiting to die
in that big old
waiting room for the sky
sure hope they got clothes lines
up there for her.
hanging on the line
the same pair washed every day
now she knows there's no-one
gonna see them again
I wonder when she realised
her last time was the last time
and how much it hurt to know
that part of her life was over
But then maybe
she was already dead inside
from the waist up
or the head down
and got left behind
just waiting to die
in that big old
waiting room for the sky
sure hope they got clothes lines
up there for her.
Published 9th Dec 2009
| Edited 18th Jul 2012
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9th Dec 2009 11:48am
9th Dec 2009 11:56am
Thanks Alec - although perhaps we all arrive there in the same way - albeit with individual detours!
Anonymous
9th Dec 2009 1:40pm
i love this A,its so so beautiful and searing, amkes me want to weep.Thank you.
9th Dec 2009 3:39pm
thanks P, - what inspirational depths I've sunk to - looking at an old woman's drawers hangin out to dry!! I guess the lesson is: when we swop places with someone that's when the insights arrive.
Anonymous
9th Dec 2009 3:48pm
Its so very true what you say, empathy can lead to insight:-)
9th Dec 2009 3:51pm
...so long as I don't have to try them on!! (I'd probably fit in there three times!)
11th Dec 2009 5:28am
this is absolutely beautifulll! i always have moments when i wonder about people who are aging and living alone or people who just live in routine and how it might be like for them to know all they're doing is waiting. it's brilliant.
11th Dec 2009 3:00pm
Thanks Celine - but then I know you well enough now to say it's not difficult to get an 'Arghhh' from you.
