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This is lovely, Janet, with highly effective central and spin-off metaphors
for that upbeat "bite" of disconnect between the generations.
"Identity"---which must be reckoned with +because+ it's an abstract---works
beautifully in its little dryer cradle.  And it's a well-fitting abstract
noun to've used.
Judy

2008/7/8 Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>:

> Comments welcome: particularly what people think of the abstract noun in
> stanza 2 line 2.
>
>
> My mother said
> not to put it in the dryer.
> All that heat! all that wind!
> Hang it under the verandah.
> Don't go out to the laundromat
> with its strangers, bad coffee, trashy magazines.
> Stay home, stoke the kitchen fire.
>
> My mother said
> not to put my identity in the dryer
> but I did
> and it came up
> fluffy and gorgeous.
>
> (A draft by Janet Jackson)
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