The Good White Towels

The Good White Towels

The Good White Towels,
are for cleaning what is already clean.

I sometimes imagine them,
sopping wet with mud.

I could bleach them...
but they'd never be the same.

I can clean them but they'll never be the same...

I reach for one,
a crisp clean white towel.

I wrap it around my arm.
The red ink comes.

A pen burst inside of me,
angry and red.

It comes through so beautifully,
 like color spilling into my everything.

It is what it is, whatever that is,

I finally got it clean...
I finally got it clean enough...