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+title: When I'm sorry I wash dishes
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
+    css: autocento
+...
+
+Your casserole dish takes the longest: \
+it has some baked-in crust from when you \
+cooked chicken last night.  Washing it \
+allows me to think about this poem's title \
+and the first few lines.  Now that I've \
+written them down, I've forgotten the rest.
+
+While sraping at something with my finger- \
+nail, I catch myself wondering again whether \
+you'll thank me for washing your dishes.  \
+I realize that this would defeat the point \
+of my gesture, that this has destroyed \
+all good thoughts I've had about saying
+
+"I'm sorry."  This, this is the reason why \
+I am always apologizing: because I never \
+mean it, because there is always, in some \
+attic, a thought roaming that says, insists: \
+"I've done nothing wrong, and I deserve \
+all I can take, and more than that."