ramble bamble: fingers to keys
i have a variety of cut and paste answers that i use when called for
these are answers to the question “how are you?”
people rarely really want to know, i have learnt
answering with the usual fine, okay, good etc. is easy
often, that’s the end of that
it’s when somebody seems to genuinely want to know more that i look into my vault of ready templates
how deep i go depends entirely on the situation
headlines? bullet points? paragraphs? compositions? the whole truth?
what i hate, what i cannot stand, what i allowed to happen to me twice today already
is when somebody pushes me get allll the way open
and then leaves me hanging
especially if I was fending off attempts at peeling the layers off
but the person was insistent
what do you get from feigning concern?
before you stripped me bare