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Miss Doublemint Visqueen
Dirty dishes do my laundry
down the chute in vanilla-ice cream.
Cloudy swishes, sudsy sundae;
hot jacuzzi, clear-umbrella swat team.
Tick tag-toed and I'll see you next Tuesday,
over-boiled and raining soft steam.
Wanna catch me? Be there Monday.
I'm in the bag earmarked "Dry Clean".
down the chute in vanilla-ice cream.
Cloudy swishes, sudsy sundae;
hot jacuzzi, clear-umbrella swat team.
Tick tag-toed and I'll see you next Tuesday,
over-boiled and raining soft steam.
Wanna catch me? Be there Monday.
I'm in the bag earmarked "Dry Clean".
Published 15th Dec 2021
Author's Note
The maids clean out the cleaner.
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Anonymous
25th Dec 2021 11:18pm
I hear Wallace Steven's ghost rummaging around in there, somewhere.
My goodness--maybe the thing I love the most is the call-out to brands doublemint & visqueen.
I didn't know what those were, & so looked (one) up.
The poem reduces the brands to aesthetic qualities, inspiration, jumping-off points; yet the poem does more than that, incorporating material, objective aspects of each brand into the poem--
This is gentle, yet resilient subversion on capitalism / branding empires / etc.
Enjoyed!
& LIKED!
My goodness--maybe the thing I love the most is the call-out to brands doublemint & visqueen.
I didn't know what those were, & so looked (one) up.
The poem reduces the brands to aesthetic qualities, inspiration, jumping-off points; yet the poem does more than that, incorporating material, objective aspects of each brand into the poem--
This is gentle, yet resilient subversion on capitalism / branding empires / etc.
Enjoyed!
& LIKED!
19th Jun 2022 4:09pm
