It's over a week since there was any chance of getting washing to dry except in the drier but we in Canterbury [New Zealand] have missed the deep snowfalls further south or the torrential rains and flooding in the East of the North Island where many had to evacuate homes and landslips caused closure of main highways. There was even a tornado in Upper North today.
Hugh Wyles
Driers are unappreciated
Why hang clothes up outside?
Where weather is not regulated
What a choice here to decide
Not knowing what outside is fated--
Or a controlled wash inside!
Driers are unappreciated
Clothes wash weather inside us
Hanging out clothes is overrated
Drying clothes without the fuss
Why is this still being debated?
There is nothing to discuss!
Tiki Cat
Author notes
I like to watch the clothes going around in these magnificent machines. Tiki Cat
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i love to rush and put on my night clothes that are freshly dried from the drier, especially in the winter time. i think you may be right, we do take driers for granted. lol now, you are going to have me go to bed with something like “unappreciated driers” on my mind, wonder what i will dream of. lol drier sheets give clothes the absolute best smell in the world. lol what about the socks they always eat?
lol
thanks for my end of the day/night laugh.
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Ah but there is nothing quite like the smell of clothes ofter they have dried in the fresh air.It's cheaper too
.mind you driers are worth their weight in gold when it's wet and cold 
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wow haha u will never believe this but i thought about this the other day :/ very true snd a great poem
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Clever cat ...
you have there.
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hanging out clothes is CERTAINLY overrated! and well i do not want to debate on this. Back in Goa, driers are unappreciated, and you will find clothes-lines from one coconut tree to another (sometimes its papaya tree or a mango!) During the monsoons, when the lakes/ponds and streams are full and flowing, you find folks washing their clothes there, it a wonderful sight, its beautiful, and no, I do not personally feel, that anyone is polluting the water and it flows away during this time when the rain falls in plenty. But anywhere else I find hanging out clothes does seem overrated and I dont know why?...well, I do not want to debate! lol!
Aren't you a genius Ellis? You'd always write what a reader would love isnt it? Thats why you're one of my favourite poet. Thanks for sharing this.
Love and light,
Lencio
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Dear Tiki Cat.
As we who know you would expect,
you, absolutely, are correct.
It's splendid, when the weather's fine,
to hang your washing on the line
but, when you have to light the fire,
wet clothes are better in the drier.
Another thing that makes me mad
which I consider very bad
is, when you hang your wash outside
(and nothing from the neighbours hide,)
inevitably, passing birds
bombard it with their sticky turds.
Driers are unappreciated
and clotheslines grossly over-rated!
BRAVO for your excellent poem. I'm opening another tin of Tiki-Treats for you!
Applause, purrs and hugs, Hugh.
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Indeed, you agree with me. Of course you do!
Did you notice a companion piece to this one -- about your washer?
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5142995
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LOL! I appreciate, I appreciate!
So does Saber the cat.
Thanks Tiki
Love,
Amera♥
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I expect that Saber said
I am right; listen to me
and so, therefore, you were led
by both us cats to agree
Tiki Cat
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Oh my silly human said a second flapping instead of Sleeping. I hope you'll forgive her!
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Max the Wonder Cat dictated, and translated, a poem on the very same subject to me this morning. He allegedly heard Pussinsky Nedzelnitsky Bootsky, alias Puss. N.
Bootsky, alias, Baby Bootsky, meowing this to Blaze Achew Pandamonium. It reads something as such:
Comment to Tiki Cat's Poem About Hugh Wyles Dryer Problems and the Magnificent Wonder of Dryers
Around around around it goes.
It's more fun than a garden hose,
More wild than windy flapping clothes
On clotheslines o'er the flapping rose.
Then those warm blankets when the clothes
Are folded up: my whiskery nose
Finds all of them delightful: those
Sweet smelling luxuries for toes
To kneed in till all order goes:
Now fluffed up more than they'd suppose,
In feline luxury we both propose
To slumber in divine repose.
Needless to say I was astonished to hear that my cats were such magnificent poets! Blaze I have long called my editor, for every piece of paper I either write or draw on he shreds to pieces, as they don't merit his sublime approval, being, I suppose substandard. It's wonderful to know I share my dwelling with such educated and literary beings. Tiki Cat,I hope you will send this along to Ellis: my cats demand you be rewarded with more catnip!
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Magnificent Max,
Thank you for passing along this cool poem by Pussinsky Nedzelnitsky Bootsky. I hope someday to meet you in this or one of our other eight lives. Stay Cool! Tiki Cat
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