Why I Needed To
A poem for Sunday
by Richard Blanco
Sep 04, 2022
2 minutes
because I faithfully reply to every email from the absurd
gods of urgency who punish my good deeds by leaving me
empty when I empty my inbox … because I praise hating
myself, broken into my calendar’s time-slotted tasks, slicing me thin with the thick duty to anyone, not even to me … because I remember birthdays
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