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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