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+title: When I'm sorry I wash dishes
+genre: verse
+
+id: when-im-sorry-i
+toc: "Whem I'm sorry I wash dishes"
+
+project:
+    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
+    class: 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 scraping 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][attic], a thought roaming that says, insists:
+
+| "I've done nothing wrong, and I deserve
+| all I can take, and more than that."
+
+[this is the reason]: http://plagiarist.com/poetry/1703/
+[forgotten the rest]: elegyforanalternateself.html
+[attic]: real-writer.html