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Ode to Love between
a Washing Machine
and a Dishwasher
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Come sit with me and be my friend
And we will clean around the bend
And stains of lilac and of grass
Shall through high trees and nettles pass
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And I have more plates to squirt
With dried-on desiccated coconut
With eggy spoons I must contend
Instead of china fine to tend
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But thou art white with gilded door
And just like I have soap in store
Thy racks and nozzles like sweet rain
Doth pulse the food scraps down the drain
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I see you tremble drum a-spin
And bubbles froth from lust within
The final shuddering end doth come
Thru waste pipe broad your fluids run
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And I too crave your open door
And wish I could creep o’er the floor
To touch your slot, your buttons fine
To lay beside, to make you mine
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And would that we together roam
Beneath the sky’s eternal dome
With flowers fragrant, air so sweet
Our wheels have magicked into feet
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We run so quick, sweet Bosch and I
A humble Hotpoint Wash ‘n Dry
Yet love doth grow ‘tween berries juicy.
And thoughts dispelled of fair Zanussi
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The bouncing lambs give praise enough
Their wondrous fleeces you will fluff
And Shepherd’s swains will speak of thee
In gentle tones, reverentially
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Yet faster still, we start to fly
Beyond the clouds, above the sky
Fair Cygnus sings our wedding tune
And Ganymede our Honey Moon
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Our ‘lectric cables coil and wind
The cold-fill doth our marriage bind
And soon a child of certain gender
A toaster or a Braun food blender
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But now the night doth start to fade
And we must return to breakfast laid
I, the tablecloth to whiten
You, the spoons and forks can brighten
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And yet our love will still remain
Though hearts will feel each other’s pain
But one day from kitchen we’ll be free
As scrap, together, thee and me
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For mem’ries cannot be destroyed
We’ll feel our love, but unalloyed
Rememb’ring stars that shone so bright
As we softly rust into long dark night.
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Published: Feb 13, 2020
Latest Revision: Feb 13, 2020
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