• give as in in
  as in how far to alter
  as in now, or soon, but please

• exactly when and how the wire
  of your next to least favourite pair
  of earrings went to brass, your
  ears turned green and that small
  hollow just behind, on your neck

• a sly goodness
• as far as that goes
• as far as that gone

Not the headache anymore, but the background radiation of the one from earlier. I'm sick because of looking at this screen so I went and picked apart the office Christmas tree, tipped it over to reach the beads in the top branches.

• bought twenty small vials of perfume, a hair brush, a pot of blush
• my neighbour hands me the miss-delivered package and mock-groans under its slight weight
• I laugh, turn and fall down his front steps
• not a single break in the bunch

(Incidentally: I know)

• shearling
• darling
• yearling
• needling
• darling darling darling

• something bloodless
• call and response and
• hair hair hair