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-title: Exasperated
-genre: verse
-id: exasperated
-toc: "Exasperated"
-project:
-    title: Stark Raving
-    class: stark
-    order: 8
-    next:
-    - title: The Death Zone
-      link: death-zone
-    - title: Boy on the bus
-      link: boy_bus
-    prev:
-    - title: AMBER alert
-      link: amber-alert
-    - title: The Death Zone
-      link: death-zone
-...
-| I didn't write this sestina yesterday.
-| It's the first time I fell behind in my task
-| and hopefully, the only time it will.
-| This means that today I must write two
-| sestinas.  If I don't write them today, I
-| will have to write two later down the line.
-| Although I feel I'm slogging through each line
-| I think I'm doing better every day,
-| though maybe this is wishful thinking: I
-| showed my friend my just-completed task
-| two days ago (my God, was it two
-| entire days?  I've no idea what I'll
-| do [after thirty-nine days][].  I think I'll
-| feel like [Inigo Montoya][], who'd been in the line
-| of revenging for so long, he didn't know what to
-| do with the rest of his life), and he deigned
-| to be polite, but I could tell the task
-| was hard for him.  He told me finally that I
-| had made a noble effort, but that ultimately I
-| failed.  [So my question][]: when will
-| I be a decent sestina writer?  For this is my task.
-| Maybe if I just keep cranking out line after line
-| I'll finally figure it out.  Maybe one more day
-| or another week will do it, or maybe I'll need two,
-| or maybe it'll never happen.  Maybe a sestina's too
-| involved, too much [weaving][] of words too fine, and I
-| will never write a good one, even on my best day,
-| even if I employ all my skill and all my will.
-| I'm not used to writing poems with thirty-nine lines,
-| that must be the problem, must be why this task
-| is Herculean.  He only had to finish twelve tasks,
-| and I have one less one thousand, five hundred twenty-two,
-| and it's nothing but complaining lines
-| about [how hard it is to be a person][].  I
-| am getting sick of myself with these poems, and will
-| soon be loathe to get out of bed every day.
-| But I tasked myself with this, which may be the worst I
-| ever do to myself.  I thought a poem NaNoWriMo would
-| be fun, would line my resume, give me something I could publish someday.
-[after thirty-nine days]: http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/11-24.htm
-[Inigo Montoya]: death-zone.html
-[So my question]: question.html
-[weaving]: tapestry.html
-[how hard it is to be a person]: deathstrumpet.html

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1	---
2	title: Exasperated
3	genre: verse
4
5	id: exasperated
6	toc: "Exasperated"
7
8	project:
9	title: Stark Raving
10	class: stark
11	order: 8
12	next:
13	- title: The Death Zone
14	link: death-zone
15	- title: Boy on the bus
16	link: boy_bus
17	prev:
18	- title: AMBER alert
19	link: amber-alert
20	- title: The Death Zone
21	link: death-zone
22	...
23
24	\| I didn't write this sestina yesterday.
25	\| It's the first time I fell behind in my task
26	\| and hopefully, the only time it will.
27	\| This means that today I must write two
28	\| sestinas. If I don't write them today, I
29	\| will have to write two later down the line.
30
31	\| Although I feel I'm slogging through each line
32	\| I think I'm doing better every day,
33	\| though maybe this is wishful thinking: I
34	\| showed my friend my just-completed task
35	\| two days ago (my God, was it two
36	\| entire days? I've no idea what I'll
37
38	\| do [after thirty-nine days][]. I think I'll
39	\| feel like [Inigo Montoya][], who'd been in the line
40	\| of revenging for so long, he didn't know what to
41	\| do with the rest of his life), and he deigned
42	\| to be polite, but I could tell the task
43	\| was hard for him. He told me finally that I
44
45	\| had made a noble effort, but that ultimately I
46	\| failed. [So my question][]: when will
47	\| I be a decent sestina writer? For this is my task.
48	\| Maybe if I just keep cranking out line after line
49	\| I'll finally figure it out. Maybe one more day
50	\| or another week will do it, or maybe I'll need two,
51
52	\| or maybe it'll never happen. Maybe a sestina's too
53	\| involved, too much [weaving][] of words too fine, and I
54	\| will never write a good one, even on my best day,
55	\| even if I employ all my skill and all my will.
56	\| I'm not used to writing poems with thirty-nine lines,
57	\| that must be the problem, must be why this task
58
59	\| is Herculean. He only had to finish twelve tasks,
60	\| and I have one less one thousand, five hundred twenty-two,
61	\| and it's nothing but complaining lines
62	\| about [how hard it is to be a person][]. I
63	\| am getting sick of myself with these poems, and will
64	\| soon be loathe to get out of bed every day.
65
66	\| But I tasked myself with this, which may be the worst I
67	\| ever do to myself. I thought a poem NaNoWriMo would
68	\| be fun, would line my resume, give me something I could publish someday.
69
70	[after thirty-nine days]: http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/11-24.htm
71	[Inigo Montoya]: death-zone.html
72	[So my question]: question.html
73	[weaving]: tapestry.html
74	[how hard it is to be a person]: deathstrumpet.html