Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

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Laundry

laundry

Standing
In my room
A feeling of impending doom
Comes slowly

Wondering
What path will I take
In this cruel world
Folding
Folding
Folding
The clothes rumpled
Like elephant skin
I sit down
Exhausted
Thinking
“How is this possibly going to end well?”

Zeke Braman
Zeke Braman, 9
Acton, MA