Launderette and Ode to a large tuna

LAUNDRETTE

We sit nebulous in steam
It calms the air and makes the windows stream rippling the 

hinterland's big houses to a blur
of bedsits ­ not a patch on what they were before.

We stuff the tub, jam money in the slot
sit back on rickle chairs not
reading. The paperbacks in our pockets curl. Our eyes are riveted. Our own colours whirl.

We pour in smithereens of soap. The machine sobs through its cycle. The rhythm throbs
and changes. Suds drool and slobber in the churn. Our duds don't know which way to turn.

The dark shoves one man in,
lugging a bundle like a wandering Jew. Linen washed in public here.
We let out of the bag who we are.

This young wife has a fine stack of sheets, each pair
a present. She admires their clean cut air
of colour schemes and being chosen. Are the dyes fast? This christening lather will be the first test.

This woman is deadpan before the rinse and sluice
of the family in a bagwash. Let them stew in their juice to a final fankle, twisted, wrung out into rope,
hard to unravel. She sees a kaleidoscope

For her to narrow her eyes and blow smoke at, his overalls and pants ballooning, tangling with her smalls
and the teeshirts skinned from her wriggling son.
She has a weather eye for what might shrink or run.

This dour man does for himself. Before him,
half lost, his small possessions swim.
Cast off, random

They nose and nudge the glass like floatsam l

This poem has no tone since no one talks

The first three stanza are about describing the launderette

The poem itself is positive but has some negative stanzas and some rhetorical question's such as "Are the eye's fast?"

Whether there is a negative or positive there is a meaning behind it and describes the personality or what has happened recently with that person

Stanza 6 Analysis 

This woman is deadpan before the rinse and sluice
of the family in a bagwash. Let them stew in their juice to a final fankle, twisted, wrung out into rope,
hard to unravel. She sees a kaleidoscope

Another wife comes in to wash her family's clothes she is more experienced but her life is depressing the quote "let them stew in their juice" is symbolic to her family.