washing machine

the washing machine rolls

thumping as it beginds to turn

I watch the timer flash three hyphens

21 minutes

I almost understand from what I run

almost, as if words could sum our love

or her

or me, twisting like wet clothes

as they drown

I watch them, revolve

around and around

and around

to cease the tumble would

kill them, sour

24 minutes left, it jumped up

only exghuasted can i take the pain

my memory to weary to remeber it all

my heart beating to lightly to feel it all

my mind to displaced..

as I watch the washing machine roll

I must be off to work now -