Day 7

As a youngster, I once eradicated a particularly nasty weed from my Grandmother's garden that all but covered the available soil between the authorized plants with an OCD efficiency that earned me a reward. In my adulthood I tried a comparable feat to hands-on remove crabgrass from my front lawn. In both cases I could see the outline of the offending plant with eyes closed for days afterward, from the effort of visually scanning for them. Now I see, behind my eyes, the shadows of weedy, wasted word-clumps in blogs, but frozen fingers can't reach out to cleanse the garden.

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