Rehearsing the Script

(Part of the Series:  On The Establishment, Care, and Maintenance of Personal Social Parameters)



Each of us maintains a book,
with ragged, dog-eared cover,
and read it faithfully every day
with no surprises to discover.

In each of our relationships
the script makes dialogue clear:
no unexpected exposés
to cause us dread, or fear.

Sometimes we have to extemporize,
when a page is smudged or stained,
and we stumble with words and narrative,
until the storyline is regained.

And sad the day when we go out
and leave our script behind,
leaving us to prattle foolishly
forgetting each and every line.

Each of us maintains a book,
with ragged, dog-eared cover,
and read it faithfully every day 
with no surprises to discover.