short list
I wrote this one twice three times — first on the napkin you see above, then on regular paper and finally in a card for someone else. I decided to post the original here, but still can’t decide which draft I prefer.
a matter of degree
I was engaging in some mostly useless thought a while back, mostly about a girl I was once involved with. It’s a familiar story to most jilted lovers, I suppose: dwelling on how the person who dumped you has moved on to someone even less worthy than you were.
I label these thoughts “mostly useless” because we tend to skew assessments of our own comparative worth. Either we think too much, or too little, of ourselves in relation to other people with whom we see ourselves competing. We rarely see the situation as it is.
Which isn’t to say I think I was wrong in the situation referenced by the haiku — just that it’s marginally possible I could have been ;)
(Incidentally, this is the handwritten version of my most recent haikubreakup submission)
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