Samuel Minier:

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Why I Can't Go in the Basement

because of Corner Lurker, of course
he who stands in that dank crevasse
between the washer and the dryer
and stares so wide, his eyes
without need for lids, blinkless, tearless,
pupils the size of bruised-black
thumbnails as they track me
from the instant my vulnerable
ankles begin their descent into the
basement gloom.  He has stalked me
all my life, my dear wife -

 

Oh . . . you beat him to death
with the ironing board last night?
So there's no reason I can't
help you with the laundry?

 

Damn.