Morning Observation No. 49

After a night of Thin Man games (I’ll
take five more—line them up right here!),

I’ve discovered that mornings aren’t so
witty when you don’t own

a proper dressing gown and I am, in
fact, not Nora, or Myrna,

my mouth too dry for a pithy
retort, my mouth too dry
to say pithy.

—KATHLEEN OLMSTEAD

(Originally published summer, 2007.)

Author Bio

Kathleen Olmstead lives in Sussex-Ulster. She has made films. She has written books that can (hopefully) be found in the Young Adult section of your local bookstore. She has contributed to the magazine since 1999. (Last updated summer, 2007.)

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