grandma carpet succumbing to its age sun-bleached, shoe-scuffed, buckling near the walls 25 years of footsteps
(worst of all outdoor shoes!)
food grease
(especially nightly sautéed onions)
and the unpredictable Irish damp
(tho I swear England rains more)
no amount of cleaning will revive your hospitality. who chose you?
unapologetic maroon,
now faded.
Still, better than your Ikea replacement.
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Wang Cai-Ying is an illustrator, photographer, writer, smashing keys around the world, now in Taipei, Taiwan. Late to the sourdough game, but early kombucha adopter, Cai-Ying insists that rollerblades are timeless. Their recent creative work is forthcoming/published in Angelaki, Stone Pacific Zine, The Dread Machine, and elsewhere.