Discourteous
Discourteous The worst part about Saturday was not the stomach ache that tugged me awake, nor the angry bathwater that shouted for me to get out. It wasn't the dripping faucet or its annoying, shadowy echo through the water. The line of empty shampoo bottles that sat gaping was more than unnerving. And the cut upon my cheek from shaving pulled a red thread effortlessly in an attempt to unravel me. The worst part about Saturday was my open invitation to tears, and how they never got back to me.
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round...
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