poetry in hands

poetry in hands

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Lady Chatterley's Hoover

Lady Chatterley's Hoover
(A bawdy ballad)

Not that kind of girl
Married to a Patrician
But the Lady had lurid longings
For a new and exciting position

She fantasised day and night
 Thrilled by her thoughts of downstairs 
Determined to get down and dirty
To suck in the fluff and the hairs

Uninhibited pulling the cord
Flushed at turning it on
She set about stroking the shagpile 
Not intending to push hard and long

But she pushed and pulled that hoover
Till she broke out in a sweat
And the hoover started whining
But she hadn't finished yet

Ecstatic at feeling so common
For her there was no going back
So she pushed and she pulled that hoover
 Till she came to and emptied the sack

Mike O'Leary - November 2013

ReInterpreting Lawrence's Lady Chatterley,
fantasising about the dignity of labour. 
Some may see it otherwise. So be it.