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Phillip Coffey - Quarantined

QUARANTINED, Living Upstream - By Phillip Coffey

Learned a lot of life lessons totally on the fly, washing dishes in the porcelain sink.
Move them quickly to another, set them on their edges - until they completely dry.
Some of the moisture turns to vapor-not catching a phrase to explain really well.
Rest of it goes down through the inserted drainage, to clean up all the fishes.



Don't bother dressing up all the whales that fisherman - painstakingly harpoon.
Just place them all in a big, humongous metal pan, fry them all up- mixed in together
Cleansed by my washing dirty dishes, way upstream with my two bare hands.
Learned bunch of stuff in my many explorations from my roots in South Central Ky.

If that is not enough, placed dirty laundry - including my jeans in a rounded tub.
Contraption started adding water, applied plenty detergent to help them all get clean.
During the process, pushing and pulling knobs, machine started jarring - going up and down, somehow.
Did that for a spell, without explanation- started releasing all the solution - then commenced

Spinning around and around so very fast - soon gave up - couldn't EVEN count.
Suddenly it stopped moving, being ever so cautious, I removed my jeans from the big pot.
They were still half wet - WHAT TO DO - decided to hang all of them up on a sturdy line.
All that evaporation took off again, slowly in the hot humid air - TELL YOU WHAT

Got to take up a rest - QUARENTINED, COVID-19 with my wife resting - that is the end of my plot.


This story was posted on 2022-07-23 11:33:14
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