#Laundering Machine (Sirru & Rosey Collab Event)

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modern burrow
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I've always wondered if
separating light laundry
from the darks
is still common practice?

That same way egg whites
filter through your fingers
or a sieve — simply so they
are free of the yolk.

Or maybe not anymore.
maybe the greyish mass,
I get from the laundromat on the corner,
is the omelet of my happiness?

It hardly even matters,
detergents nowadays are made
so colors don't bleed into water.

purity isn't pinkened by reds
and serenity comes out
only slightly less bright,
than it originally was.

So why is it, after all,
that I can only recall
your face in a smear of black?

Last summer was different tint —
as far as I still can tell.
Unbothered with lint,
you said you won't fall. But fell.

It wasn't quite
head over heels -
what a frivolous saying
to assume you tripped
while falling for me...

except, you didn't.

You stumbled
into a relationship
that added rhinestones
and gold leaf to your canvas.

...do I put canvas and denim..?
One or another
always ends up in tears.

Your flowers smelled of soil.
I had to wash my shirts each time.
Yellow as yolk, they bore
resemblance to a fried up Sun.

Ended quickly, too.

Life sapped by the very water
that once nurtured it -
similar to how your wrists
became sinew and your collarbones
stuck out.
Razor edges of a porcelain doll,
aged into sallow and dandelion.

I've always wondered if
separating light laundry
from memories
Is still common practice.

I guess the mixture is not devoid of charm.
Yet when I open the big machine,
And see your flowers, yellow as yolk,
Still staining my perception of time —

Maybe washing them away was never the point?
I think it's good enough as a conclusion

Thx @lone iris for the experience ^_^

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lone iris
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serene rose
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always ends up in tears
maybe “with tears” instead, the ambiguity of tears in the cloth or eyes

Suggestion ending / separate stanzas:

  • 1: Washing away attempts
  • 2: Wardrobe incorporation.

Elaborating…

  • Incorporating darks into wardrobe. Need plainness in outfits in order for statement pieces to stand out; “too busy” outfits. If you only ever wear darks, that makes laundry easy — but variety spice of life? Even within darks you can have subtleties and statement pieces.
  • Above analogy of how: Part of getting over someone/accepting an experience, is identifying and incorporating what about that person you want to take away with you and make a part of who you are.
  • —I guess regardless the colors are going in the wash

I don’t entirely follow the separating light laundry from memories line — not all memories are dark, no?

Thank you for the imagery and exploration. Certainly will make laundry more entertaining now lol

modern burrow
serene rose
# modern burrow I thought about "with tears" But cloth can be in tears too, or not? Tell me as a...

Cloth… I usually think of as “torn up” (past tense) or “tear into strips of cloth” (present tense verb)

if I find tears in the cloth, that’s usually the kind of damage I’d expect from say jagged open zippers w/ other cloth in the washing machine… gg rekt all delicates

Yeah. I’d expect to find tears in the cloth, idk about cloth “in tears”… at that point I’d just say “in strips” instead.

Idk if it is actually grammatically incorrect; I just find the usage unusual for the intended meaning but idk if I’m overthinking the preposition

lone iris
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But I've heard both

floral phoenix
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I like these lines:

It wasn't quite
head over heels -
what a frivolous saying
to assume you tripped
while falling for me...

floral phoenix