When you're a man and pull your hair behind your ears and tie it in a ponytail that's called a compromise when you want talk when it's over they call that bargaining which is part of grieving when you look people in the eye when you're walking that's bold or daring no matter how you are appealing when you ask yourself what makes a metal it's the ability to be flattened into sheets and drawn into wires as every jeweller knows when you are walking in the wildflowers try not to remember you don't find roses growing on stalks of clover however much you like the tune when you wear slippers don't trip on the frills or be caught sporting mutton sleeves or poodle wrists or mules and when you drive don't forget to make a deal I can't remember which is ritzier Buick or Chevrolet but Cadillac is the best and everything else is bargaining to get more for your money than the next guy paid stand...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!