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Guilt
August 9, 2012
Guilt is the sour taste of fluorescent lights
in a laundromat in a part of town
you swore you’d never even visit
but now you live in a flat just above that tiny, wretched place
with the daughter you never wanted
waking each morning to the thick smell of wet clothes
brought in at midnight but somehow forgotten
and you can’t find any stillness for the baby
always shrieking
because even if her colic is somehow soothed
she can still feel the morose thump-thump
of that coin-operated machine
that will one day be her lonesome refuge
from you.
© Jessica P., Bethel Park, PA
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