Laundromat

Poetry Essay Animal Instincts Raw sexual energy. It is what allows humans to live and reproduce. Sexual energy and tension exists in every social situation that a person comes across in life. Sex is present in school, work and home. Finding a place where there is no feelings of sex in society is nearly impossible. Dorianne Laux writes about her feelings of sex and notices the actions of those around her in “The Laundromat.” A …

…Not mating while Laux was extremely horny caused her to become sentimental. She thinks of her life and thinks of what would be if she was like the animals in the wild and had taken advantage of her natural opportunities to mate and reproduce. When she does this all she does is smile, then simply drops her underwear into her wicker basket and thinks of what life is like in its pure, raw sexual sense.