I loathe...No! I love
you
to eat.
me
dishes washing. laundry. ironing.
Know! I lose
iron cuffs round finger
in
rolling barrels. know loathe.
hanged.

Afterwords
"(women) whose deepest enjoyments are all relative; who has nothing and is nothing of herself; whose experience,
if unparticipated, is a total blank... who, in her inexhaustible sympathies can live
only in the existence of another, and whose very smiles and tears are not exclusively
her own"
"without the faculty of instrumentality...only as dead letters in the volume of human life"
- Sarah Ellis
© Elvin