/// Doing laundry back then wasn’t fun.
It took hours before you were done.
Pumping water took muscle,
so did wringing. Then hustle
off to hang it all up in the sun.
/// No one then had a washing machine.
It took scrubbing to get your sheets clean.
All your soap was homemade
and you weekly displayed
dirty laundry, by everyone seen.
/// Doing laundry back then wasn’t fun.
It took hours before you were done.
Pumping water took muscle,
so did wringing. Then hustle
off to hang it all up in the sun.
/// No one then had a washing machine.
It took scrubbing to get your sheets clean.
All your soap was homemade
and you weekly displayed
dirty laundry, by everyone seen.