(a lesson in grammar)

Earnestly. Honestly.
Tired, cold, thirsty.

With a pencil or pen.
With or without a plan.
With alarm or with tranquility.

With abandon
With uncertainty
With anger
With patience

Joyfully. In big letters! Messily, illegibly. Or neatly.

On a laptop, in a notebook, on the back of a receipt. On a Post-It, on a napkin, in the snow, on your phone.

Fearfully, bravely.

From the heart, from the lungs, from the feet, from the bowels.

Tipsily, peckish, annoyed.
Hungover. Soberly.

Uncertainly, aching.

On a wall in marker

In the margins of a book
Without expectations

Between meetings. Between moods. Hurried or unhurried.

With music or without.
With an empty stomach or full.
With intention or without.

Recklessly. Or at least
With hope.

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