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[aid] => mick
[title] => Dirty Laundry
[time] => 2004-01-19 06:57:34
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[bodytext] => my father’s voice folded me in half as mom folded towels into threes starched and stiff it hung there facing the same direction as his dress shirts I felt buttoned up the way I was taught to fasten the top securely so the collar would stand-up straight his tone wrinkled the room she stacked her thoughts with the clothes then hid them away like dirty laundry as I continued to iron the air between them in silence [comments] => 1 [counter] => 174 [topic] => 43 [informant] => manicmuze [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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