Today's word is
Oh, what an interesting word! This one is totally new to me, fresh and juicy as a sweet but unfamiliar fruit -- with just a little acid tang to the finish.
It's also a little intimidating. Since it's a word most people don't use everyday, and since it seems such an inherently judgmental word, it almost feels as though I might exemplify it just trying to use it for the first time.
Ah, well, it won't be the first time I'll have made myself look like an ass in public. And anyway, it can't be helped. Onward!
See ya later.
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Sunday, 9:02 p.m.
It was only ever
about surfaces with you.Marketing -- and not even yourself,
just your living organism, your shape,
as a packaged commodity
calculated and manufactured at
minimum cost.What would sell?
What would hit your target demographic,
the soft-hearted, lonely woman
with a job?Bawdy wit you didn't make up yourself for her?
Sciolism buttressed by a smattering of unattributed quotes for me?So slick you were,
so plastic.By the time I realized
that it was all an act,
well,
let's just say the pain was grave
and there were consequences
beyond my vanity
or her nest egg.I saw those consequences,
some of them, anyway;
goodness knows how many more there are
floating around the world like leaves on wind
in your hazardous, haphazard wake.I saw those consequences
in the eyes of her young daughter
smiling charmingly over the coffee bar
where she served me
while her mouth lied just like yours did,
just in the same exact way,
even the same cadence,
even through the same smells
of cinnamon, Sumatra, and cocoa,
just like at home.
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