Posted: Sep 30, 08 8:54pm

Okay, Milt T. Your reply to the discussion, Triple Digits, got me to get up the gumption and go. I'm putting my best foot forward by offering the most recent thing I wrote that I felt good about (that wasn't for work, anyway.) Please help me understand if this connects with the reader or is simply self-indulgent wordplay (or therapy as it actually was). Thank you!

Meltdown

“If you said that…”

“I did.”

“What I’m saying is, if you did say that…”

“Brother, I’m telling you I did. I remember!”

My eyes flash out with anger;

My words lash out at the offender.

Some frequency released by his challenge to my conceit –

a mere splinter of offended pride –

Slashes my retina, splashes all with crimson stain, and

I see red.

Shame is the searing afterimage of an exploding conceit.

(November 20, 2007 Michael H. Bone)