I wanted to post this for you so that you might see how I represented the poetry of every day speech. I am excited about performing our original works.
Russ:
Uhhh –so the questions is what is the worst job I ever had?
Having to wash windows for my mother
Because I was tall so I always got to do the windows
And she liked to do it in vinegar and I hate the smell of vinegar
So that was the worst job I can think of
….ummm I don’t remember that but I still don’t like vinegary things
I don’t like the smell of vinegar or pickles
I like sweet pickles
but not sour pickles
so you know whether I am still associating vinegar with my mother
or I if I didn’t like vinegar prior to that task I don’t recall
I didn’t mind other things
I mean I would have to clean dishes or vacuum
I don’t remember disliking those jobs or
cutting the grass it’s not like I hated doing things around the house
but I did not like washing the windows.
(Did she know you hated washing the windows?)
Probably I probably was not coy about that
Of course she was my mother …
You think a child could get off doing something
Because they didn’t want to
Oh long after
Leaving the house had nothing to do with it
I mean no no
My mother uh
Always had a list of chores for me to do
She was a widow for seventeen years.
My dad died twenty years ago Thanksgiving week
And she died three years ago
So yeah that’s seventeen years
But whenever my brother or I would visit her
She would always have a list
It was usually a small list of mechanical type things
like replacing the filter
I never minded doing those
But I guess the windows.
That was maybe just a spell
Maybe high school and college
I don’t remember having to do it too much
After that
(Who washes the windows in your house now?)
If they’re washed I wash them
I just use Windex or one of those other versions
But I do retain I guess as so many children do
Ways of doing things
For instance I guess my mother
taught me it might have been my father but probably my mother
That newspaper was a good thing
to use to wash windows
And so the last time I washed windows at home
I guess I used newspaper
Which works except you
get the print on your hand
Saturday, December 12, 2009
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