Staring at the clothes somersaulting in the dryer, Laux thinks of herself as a woman trapped in her own environment. The Laundromat serves as her aphrodisiac and she sees herself as a strong woman in need of sexual gratification. She is horny. This bring out her animal instincts and makes her aware of those around her. She notices that the individuals around her also act on their passions. One woman instead of focusing on her clothes, is instead focusing on the man whom just strolled in with his shirt off. She notices the silk jogging shorts and gawks at him. The man then too feels

Laux is struck back into reality by a potential mate asking her for a quarter. Returning from her primal sexual rage she then returns to her daily task of folding her clothes. As she does this she notices the static in the air clinging the socks together, this is her way of addressing the energy still in the air, although fading. She eventually comes down from her sexual high when she notices the "honey colored stains in each silk crotch. Odd shaped like dreams," this is her way of reflecting on the journey she just took us on by being sad that each of the spots she notices are her stains from her menstrual cycle these stains are symbolic of the other times her opportunities to act like the wild, mate and reproduce.

At the point in the poem where Laux is being checked out by the man, she is nearly out of control. She views the in its most extreme sexual magnitude and calls the whole Laundromat a "sweet humid jungle." Her raw sex drive is taking over and she is now fantasizing about "humping" everything in the place. This point she is taking herself to an animal in heat. Her horniness has reached a new level and she will take anything in the Laundromat itself. This level of excitement is normally only reached by animals in t

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Approximate Word count = 833
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)