It's Still Life

Another And

and and and, as if
ands tie everything together,
and we’re looking at him,
kinda askance, and waiting
for another and, because
they always ride in tandem,
like stuttering eyebrows,
and we wait, listening,

and and and,
he says,
and that’s all we hear
because we’ve gone deaf
to any other word he says.

Written for Miz Quickly’s Day 10: The Letter A