So true. Every person I meet IRL has different, distinct characteristics that attract my notice. Why would that be any less true of fictional people?

He really looks like he’s thinking, “but … why?”

Aww, now I feel kind of disappointed … and I’ve never even heard that acronym before.

Oh, I see. Story of my life, I guess; inadequate silverware reserves.

If knives are so useful, but spoons were your first resort, then how much more efficacious must they be?

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Yeah, knives, but you know… spoons.

Poetry is the sudden red splatter when you didn’t know you were bleeding.

It’s the gasp that precedes the startle.

It’s the frigid chill of the knife that comes before the pain.

It’s the weight of the words of the seer, falling like stones: irrefutable, irrevocable, irrecuperable.

Hmm …. How about ‘health care in America is a plate of spaghetti with flesh-eating-bacteria-sauce’?

Maybe … ‘health care in America is a hand puppet with a piranha inside’?

Or ‘a condom with a cactus lining’?

‘Acid-infused toilet paper’?

Maybe just ‘FUBAR’.

I chivvy… we chivvied… they have been chivvying… lol, you’re right; it looks like a word Mary Poppins might have concocted to entertain small children.

Interesting. This is how I learned to do it…and this is how editors always seem to want it done… so which is correct?

For what it’s worth, sometimes the best creative work comes out of turmoil and distress.