One day

                                                                                                   

a day without people

shed like that

Mebbe two days                                                                                                                         

                           mebbe

Mebbe a whole lot of days in a row

Weeks

            without the sound or interruption   of a human voice or presence

without the pleasantry  or snarky remarks 

her whole being

sheltered

removed

alleviated  

                 of intrusions

very few people recognise they are intruding

probably   because

sharing communal spaces

it allows them the assumption they have a right  or access to invade another persons sphere                       

                                                                                                                                                          unrecognised

stepping back

                       she could imagine  as if in a Venn diagram  the occasions where spheres merge

but unlike a Venn

those intersections  or bleedings  can be insignificant  inconsequential slices

the bulk of their spheres remaining separate   and intact 

being in a public room together

is not sufficient calculus to intrude on another                                           

                                                                            its Rude(incorporated in intrude)

yet somehow  the courtesies we assume were taught or instructed   are weak

                                                      

they go out the window

and an intrusion  --  seeking to be known to the other  --  apparently is too powerful or seductive to ignore

and if the one approached is attractive  that apparently begs the obfuscation of common courtesy

but no one likes being ignored 

                                                   and therefore  where those slight Venn diagram slices intersect  collide

for the sake of those  the outside  the one-in-a-million-chance shots

good manners are tossed aside

 

for its evident  contrary  thought

                                                     Nothing ventured  Nothing gained

however  

               no adage should be blindly invoked

                                                                                     

so  she figured

                        If I cant garner the respect Im due

Ill pluck myself up out of any Venn diagram I find myself in  and Go {{}}

shed like that

1444,  Monday,  11  5. 15

1945,  Monday,  11  5. 15