Oh no! Poor Andrew (at least in your telescope, Patrick).
Doug
On 2012-02-29, at 4:21 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> BRUSHED
>
> when she breezily
> sashayed past
> she unfortunately
> brushed his newly
> published anthology
> onto the floor
> and
> all the words
> spilled out cascaded
> even broke up into
> motes floating freely
> motes settling down
> motes and motes
> leaving him just
> a pile of letters
> a molehill of
> Times New Roman
> and
> a smattering
> of Wingdings
> scattered
> all over the floor
> and
> then he
> sadly picked up
> a dustpan and brush
> whimpering piteously
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r029
>
> and
> deciding in future
> he would go back
> to the good old
> clay tablets
> and get a
> new wife
>
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