Everything’s been coming up your
face and the tupperware isn’t
getting clean in the dishwasher
so i’m going back to hand
washing them like you don’t
because your hands get pruny
and you complain
that’s why i bought
you dish gloves
but you sweat in them
can’t stand it
so you sit down
and thumb through that
one book you’re always
talking about
for one line
that tells me how you
feel about dishes and
pruny hands and how
disappointing it is that
the bottle of dish soap
doesn’t blow bubbles
every time you squeeze it
and I tell you to look at how
many spoons and forks and
knives we have
and how we didn’t have that
many before and how
we should be happy it takes
us longer to clean ourselves
from the ware
but you say it’s
pointless because
we don’t have anyone
over and
sometimes
you dirty a plate just to
see a third body.
Kacey Nicosia is an emerging writer from Huntersville, NC, attending undergrad at Clemson University for Environmental and Natural Resources and Creative Writing. Her previous work appears in the inaugural issue of Hood of Bone Review. She lives with a cat named Gin, and she sometimes calls her Ginny Buffett.