… and she said, “I can see so clearly now, even with those hunks of dolerite obscuring vision in both my eyes!”

ANGER
is permissible
but RAGE
does not avail much
FERVENT PROTESTATIONS in search of VINDICATION
are as efficacious, and as misdirected, as a puff of air exhaled
in the face of a gale when one is so transparently complicated
let’s continue to talk past each other
our understanding is mutual