Ode to Mismatched Socks

All mismatched socks go in a bag

(evidence that I have given up the task)

I wear the individuals until there are holes

then throw them away

occasionally

buried in the bag

is a pair

long departed from each other

and I rejoice

they are together again

_______________________

dVerse prompt on laundry. Here’s to the missing socks that went down the drain and didn’t get in this poem.

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Ode to Mismatched Socks