Semi-Daily Scribbles

Bought at face value, moments are shaped in advance. Tricks hidden up sleeves. Nothing left to chance. No one asked for a sweet, easy ending. Straight lines and trifles. The piper would've been paid time-and-a-half. We could have been happy with the beginning, middle, and that last part. I didn't need the postscript that negated the fable I can recite by heart. The most convincing character in the pantheon is you. And now you've become an apologist.