ISSUE 6

J.R. Solonche

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Use

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“Make yourself useful,” my
mother would say as she tossed
me a dish towel, or a garbage
bag, or the broom when I was
a kid. So I did. I made myself
useful. I dried the dishes with
the towel. I bagged the garbage
with the garbage bag. I swept
the porch with the broom. That
was when I thought about the
most useless future I could think
of for myself. That was when
I first thought of being a minor
nobleman of a very small country,
or a poet.​​​​​​​

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