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It’s Too Big For the Automatic Washer

You wash the car,
And sure as sin, those
Splatters will
Smear up the windows.

But if you wash
The windows, say,
The body turns
A mottled gray.

Sometimes, it’s true, I wonder whether
I shouldn’t wash the two together.

by Ray Romine Saturday, August 20, 1949

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