mom from the
front seat:
“are you okay?”
me from the
back seat:
“i am okay.”
mom from the
front seat:
“just a sniffle?”
me from the
back seat:
“sometimes its just
a sniffle”
sometimes it is,
yeah —
but if you have a feeling,
if you have a
f e e l i n g
that it’s not just a sniffle,
then its not just a sniffle.
that, ironically,
happened to be just a
sniffle.
but hear me when i say this–
you have to sniffle
sometimes
before you sneeze.
yuh yuh!!