#424: Five Answers to the Same Question (a poem for April 18, 2022)

I

In a sense, yes.

II

In another sense, perhaps
in the sense with which you mean it,
no.

III
Maybe. A good word.
Ambiguity is everything–
and nothing.

IV
I like the cut of your jib.

V
I hadn’t considered it,
but I will take it up with
the management.

Published by michaeljarmer

I'm a public high school English teacher, fiction writer, poet, and musician in Portland, Oregon

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