This Breathing Bibelot

We just about were done

with everything that needed

to be done today when suddenly

this breathing bibelot got in the way

and made it clear we shouldn’t

do another thing without consulting it.

Not to do that, it was clear,

would mean insulting it.

Which didn’t mean we didn’t

want to say “Screw you” to it.

But that was something we

were too polite to do to it.








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