2005/beautiful

A beautiful Monday
I’m off to re-do
the laundry I did
Friday.
Ruined because I
forgot my soap
and had to use their
Tide.
Everything I put on
I had to remove,
finally I bagged
all of it in plastic.
It’s a lesson in
self-honoring.
I didn’t want to
go that day,
was tired and needed
rest.
But I forced
myself,
in the name
of necessity.
A word not large
enough to hold
my needs,
(I guess).
All of it for nothing,
except a lunch
that made me
feel fat,
and the lesson
I’ve tried to learn
a million times
that I count as much
as clothes and dishes
and books and brooms.

4/11/05