Poems from the 12-Hour Sonnet Contest: Revenge of the Washing Machine, Felicity Teague
Felicity Teague is the author of the poetry collection From Pittville to Paradise. She lives near Cheltenham, England.
Revenge of the washing machine
truth is,
I’m breaking, warped with all the use.
You overload.
Last time, I almost died!
Well,
this is just the usual abuse.
You can’t
stop spilling, can you? Trousers, shirts
and,
worst of all, unlucky underwear.
Dude, I
could catalogue a hundred hurts
you’ve
made me suffer through your lax self-care.
You know,
one day I might just shout, “ENOUGH!”,
give you
my sternest treatment, roar on roar
till
nothing’s left but tiny bits of fluff…
and then
I’ll stomp across the kitchen floor!
You’ll
fall, in awe. And I’ll begin my reign
as Queen
Machine. Now kiss my filter drain!
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