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i do the dishes
some people don’t
some people have probably gone their whole
lives without doing the dishes,
or will go
some people have probably never
even seen a nice & dingy sink
over-flowing with dishes and thought
about doing them,
or how long they could hold off on doing them,
or about what they even made for dinner last night
that created so many dishes in the first place,
or where the sponge is
under all those dishes

i do the dishes one at a time
my sponge is blue and rough on one side
it oozes bubbles under pressure
bubbles are the opposite of grime
bubbles are the opposite of food

i do the dishes listening to the radio
i do the dishes listening to
the running water
and the sound of glass and metal
knocking around
and whatever noise is
outside
traintrack
asphalt
gutter
human
bird
helicopter

i do the dishes because i have made dishes a part of my life
i am thoroughly committed to them,
the cycle of dishes doing and undoing is inevitable for me

i do the dishes and think about
buddhist sand paintings

i do the dishes and think about
the parking lot outside my kitchen
window, and the people who sometimes
live in their car there

i do the dishes and splash water
all over myself, or cut my thumb,
or break a glass

i do the dishes and stack them
clean, beside and upon each other
into a glistening wet precarious dish mound,
after awhile I dry them, put them in the cabinet,
undo a few; go about my day

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from Poems: Live From Bookmarx Local Writers Reading Series, released July 7, 2015

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