The clothes spake bitterly biting the teeth <br />When I sit to wash my clothe of the day, <br />“You the men of all classes <br />Move in the world of smoke and filth; <br />Make us dusty and dirty and stains <br />Attach the oil and grease and cheese <br />But strike us hard against the rock <br />Drop us in machine and ready with fist <br />toss and boss and twirl and twist <br />Pause not to ponder a while over the thought <br />That you do wrong but we to suffer? ! <br />The best species in the world, <br />You do all such best thus you proved! ” <br />Feeling horror at that counter claims <br />Just ran I inside with the pail in my hands.<br /><br />sasikala kamandula<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thus-the-clothes-spake/