from the beginning

the big wooden phone
you got an operator
was behind the swinging
dinning room door
dial phone
there was a room
inside the house
designated for a toilet
coal was delivered to the house
and dumped into a shoot
that put it in the basement
next to the furnace
gas furnace a thermostat
clicked it on and off
horse and wagon delivered our milk
milk truck
card table chairs
set up in the street
a projector and screen
Princess Movie theatre
ringers on the top of the washing machine
you fed the clothes through them
with a large wooden stick
front loading automatic washing machine
there is of course the beginning
but more so there is an ending
perhaps my purpose
is the ending