By: Jennifer Boire
May 10, 2004
Today, CBC radio listeners have nominated Terry Fox as an outstanding Canadian hero.
Folding laundry with quiet
determination
she understands that chaos
and its theory need to be folded and put
in its place.
That the poet and artist’s role
is to fold chaos and put order
into words is a given,
that the housewife’s role is
to put fold laundry and put
order into her house
is a given,
and that both of these roles
are equally essential to the universe
for they promote order
over chaos
is equally true, thus
as long as there are housewives and poets,
the laundry of the world
will never be left in dirty piles
and the dirty chaos lying await
in the basements of the world
will be neatly cleaned and folded
one more day.
Jennifer Boire
"After ecstasy, the laundry"
~(Zen saying)
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