Apology Baxton is in her living room trying to write poetry. She’s talking to herself about her poems, reciting them out loud. She’s tried limericks, haikus, rhyming couplets, sonnets and free-verse but she doesn’t like any of her attempts.
Meanwhile, her roommate Leonard, keeps coming in and out of the room carrying televisions. On one of his trips out, he stops by the couch and asks what Apology is doing and she tells him she’s trying to express herself through poetry. Leonard laughs at her and she turns around to hit him, but notices he’s carrying a TV. She asks why and he explains he’s trying to set a world record by filling a room with working TVs. Apology asks which room he’s using and he tells her not to worry because he’s using the empty spare room.
Apology continues to attempt poetry-writing, but gets fed up and throws her notepad away. She turns around and sees Leonard bringing more TVs in. She asks where he’s getting them from and Leonard explains he’s borrowing them from a local electrical shop. Apology, annoyed at her lack of poetry-writing skill and quite bored by now, helps Leonard fill the room with TVs. He tries making up poems while they do it and Apology eventually becomes annoyed with him.
When the room is completely full, Leonard holds up the plug to switch them all on, but when he does, all the power goes off. Apology tells him he should find a new record to break. Leonard asks if there’s a record for bad poetry-writing.
I've always found it difficult to come up with a story with specifications. As much as I love writing, I prefer to do it at my own leisure. Also, having never lived in an apartment situation before and watching limited sitcoms, I'm at a bit of a loss of what to do. But we shall see where this goes.
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