VAPID conversation, nothing to
SHARE, empty air from empty conversation
OUGHT to bother him. He leads
HER ON, all the same.
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DRIER, at least, from the dust clouds at canyon bottom and
PRIVY to the location of the
NINTH cache of explosives
CAN DYnamically alter the outcome. Next time.
The Lesser Versailles
CANDY the outbuildings with paint and ornament,
PRIVY is still a privy, the handyman thinks, painting
NINTH stencil on its side. He finds it all too precious.
DRIER wits will henceforth call it “the Lesser Versailles”.
Boring Conversations
CANDY seller
PRIVY to the day’s
NINTH conversation about
DRIER repairs.
Excess
Overindulgence of CANDY
at Christmas has meant today’s NINTH
trip to the outside, long-drop PRIVY
and too much washing in the DRIER.
Growing wiser
Once I acCRUDE some understanding in this hospital, I
LEARNed that a little bitty knowledge of the
NURSE’s daily workload goes a long way to getting a
BITTY – a little bitty – more help with my post-op struggles.
Learn to Discern
LEARN to discern between
CRUDE and rude, else my
BITTY brain under strain may
NURSE a blight that is merely a slight
Speaker of the House
NURSE ambitions, while slamming shutters to the soul.
LEARN blanketing darkness, grinding step by step, shrink to
BITTY horizon, till there’s nothing beyond today’s desire,
CRUDE purpose, of no value to you or anyone else.
Needlepoint
NURSE approaches with news; I
LEARN a shot is necessary. Little
BITTY needle, I’m assured.
CRUDE language shakes the windows when I see it.
Like a vapor dispersed
SUAVE, jaunty, debonair? Or,
PASTY, uncertain, jumbled? Some
BYLAW of fate may contain the pronouncement.
BLINK, though, and whichever it is, you’ll have missed it: we are vapor.