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Literary Review of Canada
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July 1, 2008
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Let's sing them an anthem, hum them a hymn.
Glory be each numbered door, every last white
towel, even the frayed. Every day is laundry day,
you always come up clean. Hotel bibles know
their place (drawers), they pass no judgement, nor
does the pool, an aqua bowl brimming with faith.
Somewhere, someone stuffs a shower
cap into a small box. A sacred act. Let's hear it
for those paper hats the tumblers wear, for country
stations blurring by as you twirl clock-radio dials
until your own voice washes across the shag carpet.
You're free of history, here. Or, if you must have one
it's jolly - a trembling chambermaid seeking your
autograph, her breath small gallops inside her uniform.
Your sheets ...
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