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The Sink Is Full
The sink is full tonight.
The fridge is calm; the dust lies gray Along the shelves; out the French doors the light Gleams off the slugs; the pile of bills to pay Falls over sideways onto the sleeping cat. I'm getting out Of here! The television seems To offer visions of defending teams, So curious, inscrutable, and true, And yet has neither maids, nor aides, nor brooms, Nor any other friend to ease my brain; So I am fleeing on a sparkling plane Swept for shoes, with unarmed luggage in flight, Which indigent airlines crash by night. February 2002
From the Daily Whale.
Compressed parody of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach".
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