Market busts are like flooding a basement.
It’s amazing how much dirt there was
embedded in the old carpet,
that floated to the surface when the water came.
- jesse at vancouvercondo.info 3 Feb 2012 7:08am, spotted by ‘Bailing in BC’
A post in the very, very occasional ‘Vancouver RE-Verse’ [Found Poems] series.
Poems are completely unedited but for layout.
Prior examples here.
When we bought our last house, the kids bathroom had shag pile in it. 30 year old carpet, covered in kids piss.
I hope you disposed of that correctly with all the right forms and permits.
The poem uses simile when metaphor would have been more succinct holed.
Yah I’ve seen those carpeted bathrooms and couldn’t help but think, “WTF were people thinking putting carpet down in a bathroom?”
I’m a clean freak, and I refuse to allow even bath mats or those stupid puffy toilet seat covers in the bathroom. I want nothing but hard surfaces that can be cleaned easily (and often). A few times the girlfriend has expressed a desire to put in one of those prettily coloured bath mat sets. On that I am completely unyielding. Not even the ensuite, which is her own bathroom. I painted a picture of bacteria and disease thriving in the carpet fibres, and sufficiently grossed her out of the idea.
It’s not a problem if you make all male household members sit down to pee. (My mom once tried that with four boys in the house – guess how far she got with that)