Friday, May 16, 2008
Housework Georgics
I really love the housework we've been doing. I've invented a new genre for writing about housework: housework georgic. For readers of my blog who have wasted less time on 18th century poetry than I, the "georgic" is a rural poem that values labor as Nature's necessary and virtuous calling. I don't have enough time to write a georgic in verse right now, but I will announce to all of you fans of our thirteen-year-old couch that we have purchased a Bissell "Little Green" upholstery cleaner, and that the brocaded, over-sized loveseat of our youth has been purged of its associations with our poodles, Star and Abdiel.--K
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It's a tribute to Star, Abdiel, and even Lola Kate that you were able to survive thirteen years without a Little Green.
We have owned one ever since Brooke was born. Not only do we have a Little Green, we also have a Hoover heavy duty carpet cleaner. The depradations of Hootie, Little, and a milk-spewing baby required serious armaments.
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