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Monday, January 19, 2015

Work


WORK

Work springs from bed, time ringing,
Switches off alarm, not clock, world,
Ticking, spinning, running, rushing—
Undresses, showers, splashes—

Sun, birds, window—towels, fluffy, dry—
Dresses, belt, tie, mirror, brushes hair,
Bounds for egg, rice, coffee—
Brushes teeth, brushes hair again,

Hops in car, drives, slows down, traffic—
Rain, wipers, left, right, metronome—
Signals, turns, parks, jumps out—at last!—
Guard, elevator button, fourth floor,

Hello, good morning, sits down, breathless,
Switches on computer, types—tik, tak,
Tikkity-tak—gets up, coffee maker—almost
No one here, checks calendar—holiday.

Originally published in Boston Poetry Magazine (September 4, 2014)



Virginia Woolf, a pioneer of the stream-of-consciousness technique

4 comments:

  1. The New Dress (1927) is one of my favorite short stories, along with The Fly (1922) by Katherine Mansfield and Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov (1898).

    Gonzalinho

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  2. Public domain photo by George Charles Beresford

    Photo link:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902.jpg

    Gonzalinho

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  3. Poems about work—a great selection:

    http://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2013/01/11/10-great-poems-about-work/

    Gonzalinho

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  4. More poems about work:

    http://hellogiggles.com/poetry-at-work-day/

    Gonzalinho

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