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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: When I'm sorry I wash dishes | ||
3 | id: when-im-sorry-i | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
8 | class: autocento | ||
9 | ... | ||
10 | |||
11 | Your casserole dish takes the longest: \ | ||
12 | it has some baked-in crust from when you \ | ||
13 | cooked chicken last night. Washing it \ | ||
14 | allows me to think about this poem's title \ | ||
15 | and the first few lines. Now that I've \ | ||
16 | written them down, I've [forgotten the rest][]. | ||
17 | |||
18 | While scraping at something with my finger- \ | ||
19 | nail, I catch myself wondering again whether \ | ||
20 | you'll thank me for washing your dishes. \ | ||
21 | I realize that this would defeat the point \ | ||
22 | of my gesture, that this has destroyed \ | ||
23 | all good thoughts I've had about saying | ||
24 | |||
25 | "I'm sorry." This, [this is the reason][] why \ | ||
26 | I am always apologizing: because I never \ | ||
27 | mean it, because there is always, in [some \ | ||
28 | attic][attic], a thought roaming that says, insists: \ | ||
29 | |||
30 | "I've done nothing wrong, and I deserve \ | ||
31 | all I can take, and more than that." | ||
32 | |||
33 | [this is the reason]: http://plagiarist.com/poetry/1703/ | ||
34 | [forgotten the rest]: elegyforanalternateself.html | ||
35 | [attic]: real-writer.html | ||