perhaps perhaps perhaps

i am ready
for what certain people
might ask or say...

and if her questions center
on grammar (which she knows better
than i) or

the idiomatic (however lame and uninterested
i am at 'small talk', a birthright and
curse simultaneously, i guess:
to view what is assumed to be
the most familiar from an
anthropological stance)?

or buddhist thought?

how funny that the literal
cunning linguist
is a comfort i so miss?

how surprising that her potential
bluntness (which i never feared)
is linked to a very different one in
such a way (whose bluntness i never
feared either, however different
their desires and affect) that i
previously never credited...