"On Doing Laundry as a Single Girl" (WOWPS 2016)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- "This poem is about the laundry-load of guilt I've been carrying."
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Erin Anastasia competes in prelims at WOWPS 2016.
Recorded at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
Thank you Sergio Torres for filming.
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"On Doing Laundry as a Single Girl"
BEEP.
Clothes are dry.
Sweatpants of a best-friend
who I occasionally like to hold hands with.
Gym shorts of a good friend
who I occasionally like to make out with.
Pajama pants of an ex-boyfriend.
Who I’m occasionally still in love with.
This poem
is about the laundry load of guilt
I’ve been carrying.
This poem about how
I can run myself through endless cycles
yet never feel clean.
There’s something dirty about a single girl.
There’s something secret about her sleeping arrangements.
There’s something whisper worthy about her ring finger
and why she ended her past two promising relationships
in search of things like “self-reliance” and “happiness”.
There’s something heartbreaking about becoming the girl you judged in high school.
There’s something liberating about becoming the girl you judged in high school.
Still, these songs that come on my iPod
sing about together forevers
and evers and evers
and I never had a love that burned strong and long enough
to really last.
And there’s something shameful about failing to “make it work”,
but there’s something terrifying
about eating one flavor of ice cream for the rest of my life,
and I use that analogy only because it sounds pretty,
in actuality I’m lactose intolerant and have hella sensitive teeth.
And I’m not saying I hate the idea of a one and only.
I love the idea in theory. So far it just hasn’t made me happy.
And I’m not saying it never could.
I guess. I’m just- what I’m trying to say.
Is that being a single girl at twenty-two
feels really fucking good.
And I’m done.
With this self-slut-shaming guilt.
This, get your life-together girl guilt.
As if graduating college wasn’t enough.
As if I need to be aboard the train headed for the chapel,
in order to be on the right track.
I don’t want to be on a track,
trains are loud and scary.
I’d much rather be in a quiet forest,
flirting with the cute lumberjacks.
And there’s nothing shameful about this winding path.
There’s nothing unclean
about these bare feet dancing pirouettes in the dirt.
There’s nothing ugly
about the way the leaves fall,
crashing in and out of love
bleeding colors onto each other,
not like stains
but like forever memories,
reminding me
that temporary
does not equate to
empty --
that I will be so full
of love on my path.
And that it’s okay if I get lost
because exploration excites me.
So thank you society, really,
but I think I'm gonna go it without the map.
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This poem is my life right now.
+Kaneisha Lewis
I'm in love with this poem and how it makes me feel better about my choices in life. This is definitely empowering.
+Brigitte Hobbs
This poem is liberating and so beautifully honest
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That was the greatest poem ive heard yet because you made me laugh 👌💓🤑
Whoa, holy shit...I'm blown away. Go Erin!! This is just what I needed!!!
+SmartMan1st1
This is excellent.
This poem is how I got over my terrible breakup. It makes me feel empowered to be single for the first time in my adult life
You are absolutely welcome. Glad I could help =)
Sensationalism doesn't want you to happily ever after.
Endless cycles but never feel clean
that was awesome! very well said
this was absolutely wonderful
Erin, you are who I aspire to be in life!
I love your poems, I'm going into highschool this year and I want to do something similar to poetry, public speaking, or music and I've only ever read someone else's poem out loud, never my own. anyways, I love your poems because I can relate and for some reason they remind me of my best friend who's going into college this year and I probably won't be able to see her for a while :/ so it's nice to have something that reminds me of her and I can relate to, it makes me feel a lot less alone
I CANNOT stop listening to your poetry. Your emotions are so raw and beautiful.
+Traci Henderson Thank you Traci!
Erin Anastasia You are so welcome! Please keep doing what you do! You are so talented!
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You inspire me so much! Amazing poem and performance! 😊
+Ruby Mora Thank you Ruby! =)
you go girl, you just gave us all hope
I needed this. Thank you.
well spoken words that many of us girls feel.
I've never related this much to a poem
this is beautiful tbh
Preach~ Haha this poem is amazing!
I like listening to spoken poetry, but this is more of a speech, almost a rant, if i may say. Very relatable, very honest, but with little rythm.
There's a lot of repetition and rhyming in it. It might not have a perfect rhythm, but it does have poetic elements in it - so it's not just a rant.
I just love this so much!
All I needed to hear :(.
How to you come up with all these amazing metaphors. I really wish I could write something as creative
eFF YES
amazing
+Krislyn Schreckengost I'm glad you liked it! =)
+Erin Anastasia I honestly love your channel and all of your poems. So inspiring!
thank you! Means a lot
Damn it. I thought this was a happy one.
I’m a single girl I’m 22 but I’ve never been in a relationship before.
LOL
I'm sorry but I thought that you said that you were going to put the words to the poems in the description
They are. They're at the bottom