regret

“Sometimes we just don’t think”
she tries to console me
when I relate my story
of standing on Gary’s dining table
to replace the overhead light there--

“Sometimes we just don’t think”
when I wince
reading the New Yorker article
about Snyder’s Japanese house
with its Shoes Off rule--

Then she rubs it in
by pointing to the page cartoon
a field dog scowling
at the hunter who’s downed a pheasant-
“Now Look What You’ve Done!”