Please take note. Bicycle skeletons are not as rare as has been recently advertised in the local press. Be advised. Do not pick up any book whose contents might contain seedlings. You must always remember the rules of preventative medicine. Epidemics can be circumvented before they start. All you need is good old-fashioned ingenuity.

Stop sketching the blue-eared dogs expiring softly by the one remaining fountain.
I know for a fact that they are on their way to greener homes dotting Valhalla Acres.

To spell (or spill) the truth—the secret life of people sleeping in gas stations is not why I have stopped here today, to sit and sip blueberry tea beneath the shade of an old, second-hand Christmas tree, and talk with you about the deeper things in life, the ones we keep hidden in the well.

Truth be told—there are more important splatters on the windshield; with some pressing harder than has been unofficially stated. You see, not all the sand blowing this way brings a handsome clatter of news. Sprinkled among us are anonymous sources that should remain that way.

Putting a window box on your head is another step that can be improved on. Just as being afraid of the cold is like picking up a suitcase when you don't know what's inside.