She said, “I don’t want to politicize this work or read it as radical. This is about *her life.*” & when the professor prompted me to respond, as I had said nothing all period, all I could think of was Solmaz Sharif:

“A lover, once: You can’t say every action is political. Then the word political loses all meaning.

He added: What is political about this moment?

I was washing his dishes. I had left the water running.”