Poem: recipe for atonement

​recipe for atonement

By Shereen Lee
QuailBellMagazine.com

​you find the bland numbness of too many
words in my mouth again.

 
not quite dead
but not alive,
either.
(purgatory
wedged between
grains of sand)
 
& what you don’t know is that
at one point
during one of my more recent lives,
i was a switchboard operator
training myself in the art of false apology.
 
i have heard this disembodied desperation of yours
a million times before,
under the crackle of static
(how may i help you? no, i’m afraid
that number doesn’t exist anymore)
 
but what i can tell you is this:
If you repeat something enough times,
it will eventually lose its meaning &
 
there are only so many ways for somebody to say
(i’msorryi’msorry)
i’m sorry​--
​

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