recipe for atonement
By Shereen Lee
QuailBellMagazine.com
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you find the bland numbness of too many
words in my mouth again.
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--
#Unreal #Poem #Atonement #Switchboard #Sorry #Apologizes
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