Thursday, May 2, 2013

And as this ""Chapter"".....this MULTI-facetted ""Chapter"" in her life....

came to a SCREECHING CRESCENDO...
she realized...
full well....
that even though she could have BLAMED SO MANY people....
SO MANY circumstances.....
SO MUCH BAD BLODD and BAD LUCK.....
that ultimately...and inevitably...
the Chapter BEGAN and ENDED ONLY WITH HER...
She had been, in point of fact, the CREATOR of this play....
She had conjured it right up in her GINORMOUS IMAGINATION....
She had lent credence to it by committing it to paper...
(or to "keyboard", as it were....)
She had funded it and nursed it and coddled it...until....
The THING had actually grown legs and a head....
and WILL of its own....
And yes, of course, it had become GREATER and more POWERFUL as the days moved on....
The creature which only SHE had created had SPROUTED and spread its
OVERWHELMING seed over a vast expanse of territory...
covering the ground beneath it in a BLANKET of MUTUAL EXCLUSIVITY...
And so it went.......

IS IT ALL RELATIVE ?

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