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i miss being a dishwasher.

By rex tomballPublished 4 years ago 1 min read

there are many days i find myself dreaming about other people's food. the parts they didn't touch for whatever reason they might have.

i want to go back to the dishes and scrape the odd ends of mash potatoes and stuck-to-the-plate corn kernels that deserved no more nibbles.

watch them slowly spin around and around, down the drain they go, no worries, no faults — not a second thought.

you can learn a lot about a person by what they leave for the dishwasher.

and you don’t even need to meet them or see the lucky food that made it to their instagram story.

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About the Creator

rex tomball

Sunrise City, USA. Nobody by day, writer by night. I came out swinging from a Midwest basement caked in stale beer and sweat, under half lit fluorescents.

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