Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Today's writing

 When I get home James is sprawled out on the couch with a book in one hand and his iPad in the other. “Double duty?”

 

“I get bored easily,” he says.

 

“I’ve noticed. Care to help?” I’m juggling several canvas bags’ worth of groceries – no plastic bags here, no paper – and he hasn’t seen fit to shag his ass up to grab at least one of them. It’s not his fault, at least not the way that any of our natures are at fault. It’s not fault. It simply is, and at some point we either accept or continue to fight.

 

Too often I choose the latter. Maybe I shouldn’t say too often. I’m a fighter; it’s baked into my bones and boiled into my blood. Maybe it’s not my fault that makes me a pain in the ass.

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