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# After Running Errands, I Think of the World I Want Us to Live In: A Villanelle
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/after-running-errands-i-think-of-the-world-i-want-us-to-live-in-a-villanelle/
- Published: 2021-02-15T17:02:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:05.000Z
- Description: What is left after the groceries are put away? Dishes on the drying rack, nothing to clean: all is as it should be, or so they say.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

What is left after the groceries are put away?  
Dishes on the drying rack, nothing to clean:  
all is as it should be, or so they say.

My darling, tomorrow is recycling day!  
Let us do our part. There’s much I mean  
to do after the groceries are put away!

Even death comes with chores: one day  
we’ll buy for the other what flowers remain,  
which is as it should be, or so they say.

My darling, don’t be sad. Hold this bouquet  
to your breast. There’s much to grieve; I’m keen  
to make love after the groceries are put away!

You would be so warm to touch. It is with dismay  
I admit I can’t have you, the gap between dream  
and nightmare—which is as it should be, or so they say.

With what little time remains, we must disobey  
the voices of reason, the calls to action, which scream  
that we find peace in putting the groceries away:  
nothing is as it should be, no matter what they say.