Jean Pool
Ebony Hagans-Greene
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Listen here, lil nigga—
I’m finna teach ya ass
how to do laundry.
We gon start wit our wash cycle—
Now, your clothes gon be on
some real
“wade in the water” type shit,
you feel me?
So make sure all valuables
are accounted for.
All your jeans are black,
so make sure to lump them shits together,
turn each one inside out
until all their seams are laid bare,
and loot their pockets ‘cause
we can’t have any riches wasted now,
can we?
Now go ahead and submerge them—
Nah, don’t worry about pushin ‘em down—
they’ll fall to the bottom anyway.
Now—wait, whatchu doin?
You tryna add a white shirt?
To this load?
‘Cause it “missed” the last one?
Nigga, don’t you know
you separate your colors from your
whites?
…This shirt done been washed
with the colors, ain’t it?
Yeah, can always tell—shit’s dingy.
You ain’t even separate this out right—
Got a whole greyed sock
tangled up inside this
white shirt—
whatchu gon tell ya mama?
Throw it out—yes, nigga, throw it out—
it’s disposable.
We’ll get you a new pair of white socks
in no time.
What about the shirt?
It’s fine—one good bleach cycle
and it’ll be good
and white as new.
You won’t be able to tell
it’s been romping around with the colors
at all.
Whatever colors you wash it with tho
gon come out faded,
so them jeans we was talkin bout earlier?
Yeah, they not gon be as black
as they used to be.
Nah, you can’t fix that shit—
they don’t make a product for that yet—
not for this system.
Issa good thing nobody cares about
whether your blacks match or not tho—
I mean, black is black, right? Now—
Wait, nigga when the fuck you sneak bleach
into the load?
Don’t you know them blacks ain’t
neva gon be white, boy?!
No matter how hard you
bleach them shits,
They just gon be pink and red and black and blue—
I hope you like acid wash, goofy nigga
‘cause ya jeans are gonna have an
identity crisis comin out this bitch.
Whatever—black jeans a
hot commodity anyway.
We can get you some more.
Not too many tho—shit’s expensive,
and we can’t just have you
fucking up any more black jeans
outta ignorance.
Look, your cycles almost over.
Make sure you set them whites on delicate—
low heat, low pressure.
Oh, and make sure you hang them coloreds
out to dry.