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