The plausible deniability . . . wait, that's a bit too strong . . .
The plausible desirability? . . . no, no . . .
OK, waking to a snowstorm . . .
Another iPhone day chomping at the catch-as-catch-can . . .
Chomping or champing? . . .
Google it . . .
This will in no way be altered or elevated to make it more
conventionally literary . . .
Little matter . . .
I am at my best when I am at my best, yes? . . .
You are at your best with obfuscation . . .
Undiminished . . . he/she wanted to shout . . . I am undiminished . . .
by the inopportune . . .
by the sharp questions being hurled at me . . .
by the light of the silvery silence . . .
Walk with me . . . take a number . . .
How many times . . . how often . . . when did you begin
to feel like this? . . .
Excuse me? . . .
OK, you reek of hyperbolism . . .
Huh? . . .
You exaggerate . . . embellish . . . the idea
that your experience . . . oh, forget it . . .
But who among us does not? . . .
Among us? . . .
You know what I mean . . .
It's part of the bigger picture, I mean, poem, yes? . . .
Are you on the heels of . . . or on the coattails of? . . .
Please stop doing that . . .
Doing what? . . .
Regressing to one of your tried-and-true motifs . . .
like when walking along a roadbed . . .
Yes? . . .
You sense the locomotive . . . and wish for corrections . . .
the corrections you weathered in fourth grade
reading a graphic novel . . . on a snow day . . .
