Today I washed you off my sheets. Cottons cycle, 3 hours 12 minutes. Hot pink wash syrup, fabric conditioner with ylang ylang. Sweat stains and skin dust and menstrual blood sucked out and washed down the drain. Coffee rings from the Saturday crossword swept away in the vortex. Tear stains swept back out to sea. I’ll dry them by the radiator, 35 degrees. The sheets, not the tears. Tears don’t need radiators. Amy said it best. They don’t even need ylang ylang.