tepid yet sloshed

It wasn't, like she said it might not have been, or could just barely be, without even thinking about it, like as if it never was even considered, or perhaps it did but unnoticed by anyone, or witnessed by the ever so slightest percentage of available persons.

It was, like she said it was, and exactly was, even without thought, just as considered, noticed and witnessed by pretty much everyone.

It reminds him of that lacy fragile ankle bracelet on the blond voluptuous goddess walking with her friends down the boardwalk. Or of that breakable thumbnail up the plank run. Or that myopic visionary silhouette leaving only prints in the sand.

That Canso can have a nearby launch pad, or that lunch can be pad thai rice, or that parentage can be mixed Chinese-Thai, or that playing Monopoly requires zero poles. Making a list of items that include only haphazardly