dirty word?—you better

believe it

or not

ready

or not

here it comes

shiny

shabby

skinny

flabby

here it comes

best thing to have ever happened

in the worst of all possible worlds

before you know it

jeepers

you know too much

creepers

and then are dying to know

more

about it:

more

it’s all about just that

more

isn’t it?

more

after every misfortune

the torture of dreaming

“we should’ve stayed home”

stayed put

happy with where we were

but for whatever reason

???

there’s something mightily magnetic

about waterfalls

and the flow that keeps going over.

and over.