What is a problem?

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A problem is said

to be the diversion

of opposing humours. 

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Or, when one force meets counter-force.

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Example:

“What’s for dinner?”

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I say, “Fish.”

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You say, “Horse.”

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Now we have a problem.

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So we start again.

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I say, “Fish”

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You say, “Horse-fish.”

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Now we have a compromise.

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But either way —

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Dinner’s off.

.

When the world has to

beat a path to your

door,

that says a lot about

your mousetrap—– but

not much about your

front yard.

 

I need to stop

trying to look up

stuff on

my type-writer

I must assume it’s

no big deal to

accidentally leave

the lens cap on

an X-ray machine

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Ships are

always in

ship shape.

That’s why

they call

them ships

Pray,people al-ways shout whenever you’re about, too?

Why must I

wear a seatbelt

if I am not

wearing pants?

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I had a dream

I was falling off

of a cliff,

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but when I awoke

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I realized that

I was falling

off a cliff!

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So, maybe it wasn’t

a dream, so much,

as it was a thing

I had just remembered

that I was doing

prisoner’s lament

photograph by Mary Cellini