"Were you the one that people were saying fell and embarrassed himself yesterday?"
pfff. that’s rough. humiliation colors his cheeks fuchsia, plucks the corners of his lips, tongue-kissed & berry-binge red ‘till he’s rounded over; a grinning, cackling fool. he remembers his face, a fashion of taut-porcelain - a bite into dry-ice when you fathom the indifference, and he thinks to himself ‘how contemptuous’, ‘the nerve’, but confrontation is avoidable & most sensible, so he rules to diffusing the tension with laughter in pursuit of lighthearted communion. “ i believe i tripped, but there was an absence of a fall. nope. did not fall. ”












