"you've got to take a second to remind yourself that you're only human and that you make mistakes and that you can be forgiven and remade."
so she did take a second. only one. one second out of sixty seconds, a little more than one percent of a minute.
she took a second, but she couldn't make herself take fifty nine more.
so i wrote this after reading "an umbrella for the inferno" by jude rigor. seconds. it's somewhere on that list. i love her poetry, and you ought to go read it.