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today while washing the dishes i did not get a sec

today while washing the dishes i did not get a second to sigh/ my wrists hurt from scrubbing the stainless steel/ removing the evidence of a butchered bird from our plates/ i gulped a ball of phlegm rising in my throat/ i made an effort to not cry/ i really miss suman auntie/ today while washing the dishes i did not get a second to sigh/ my wrists hurt from scrubbing the stainless steel/ removing the evidence of a butchered bird from our plates/ i gulped a ball of phlegm rising in my throat/ i made an effort to not cry/ i really miss suman auntie/ today my privileged girl really wants to come out/ wail to the world that her hands are not meant for this/ they are meant for pearl bracelets/ glass bangles shipped from amritsar and old delhi/ crystal watches/ ruby stones/ my privileged girl is angry at the virus/ how it can infect all of us/ how she had nothing to do with the pandemic/ how the world has come to such a halt/ now nothing revolves around her anymore/ she really wants to throw a tantrum but there's no one around to watch her performance/ so she scrubs the oily bottom of the pan harder/ crinkles up her nose when she yanks the clogged flesh from the sink/ trying not to gag from the stench of her habits/ not to feel the weight of ancestral coffers/ i tried to quiten the noise she was making/ pretty much asked her to shut up/ i thought about the things my privileged girl hates to know/ sanitation workers who touch flesh/blood/ poop/hair/with bare hands/ no masks/ domestic help/ mostly women with histories of abusive in-laws/husbands/ too many children/ caste oppression/ the misfortune of being the 99 percent/ migrant workers robbing the song 500 miles off its metaphor/ it's hard to be a modern mary antoinnette/ we all know the difference between the culprit and the scapegoat/ now everybody knows/ it's not just suman auntie who can not eat cake/
today while washing the dishes i did not get a second to sigh/ my wrists hurt from scrubbing the stainless steel/ removing the evidence of a butchered bird from our plates/ i gulped a ball of phlegm rising in my throat/ i made an effort to not cry/ i really miss suman auntie/ today while washing the dishes i did not get a second to sigh/ my wrists hurt from scrubbing the stainless steel/ removing the evidence of a butchered bird from our plates/ i gulped a ball of phlegm rising in my throat/ i made an effort to not cry/ i really miss suman auntie/ today my privileged girl really wants to come out/ wail to the world that her hands are not meant for this/ they are meant for pearl bracelets/ glass bangles shipped from amritsar and old delhi/ crystal watches/ ruby stones/ my privileged girl is angry at the virus/ how it can infect all of us/ how she had nothing to do with the pandemic/ how the world has come to such a halt/ now nothing revolves around her anymore/ she really wants to throw a tantrum but there's no one around to watch her performance/ so she scrubs the oily bottom of the pan harder/ crinkles up her nose when she yanks the clogged flesh from the sink/ trying not to gag from the stench of her habits/ not to feel the weight of ancestral coffers/ i tried to quiten the noise she was making/ pretty much asked her to shut up/ i thought about the things my privileged girl hates to know/ sanitation workers who touch flesh/blood/ poop/hair/with bare hands/ no masks/ domestic help/ mostly women with histories of abusive in-laws/husbands/ too many children/ caste oppression/ the misfortune of being the 99 percent/ migrant workers robbing the song 500 miles off its metaphor/ it's hard to be a modern mary antoinnette/ we all know the difference between the culprit and the scapegoat/ now everybody knows/ it's not just suman auntie who can not eat cake/
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Svetlana Saraswat

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