I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and …

Elizabeth Bishop
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I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?
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I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?
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Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too? ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.91, Macmillan
But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it want … ▶
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) ✨ Elizabeth Bishop (2015). Poems, p.58, Macmillan

I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well that I don't do it at all?

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