Fluorescent Blue

Fluorescent Blue

Four-oh-six, laundromat
Fluorescent tubes buzzing blue
Twenty washers turning circles
I keep checking one dark screen for you
One red sock in dryer twenty-two
Hits the glass on every round
Every machine around me is moving
I'm the only thing shut down

Fluorescent blue, spin another hour through
Fluorescent blue, every circle points to you
Everything in the room was spinning except my life
Fluorescent blue, keep me awake tonight

Phone lights up beside the detergent
My chest jumps before I read
It is Mom asking, Are you coming home?
Not the name I thought I'd see
I look at all our sheets together
Clean enough to fold alone
For once I let the dryer finish
And don't feed another coin

Machines know when to stop
I keep adding quarters

Fluorescent blue, spin another hour through
Fluorescent blue, every circle points to you
Everything in the room was spinning except my life
Fluorescent blue, keep me awake tonight

I came here to wash your perfume
Out of cotton, out of proof
That red sock kept circling without its pair
Till I finally stopped waiting too

Fluorescent blue, machines go quiet now
Fluorescent blue, I can fold this life somehow
Everything in the room was spinning; now I finally move
Fluorescent blue, morning coming through

Fluorescent Blue