• 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