HUM14

The least of these is that she’s about to retire. Heard she’s looking forward to it. I should ask. As she asked. I wrote two drafts of her citation. Submitted it two weekends ago, a small thing, a stretch of static, meant to keep the tone and wear the form. Not that anything more gets written down, but the revision won’t stop. A few odd phrases on my phone drafts, after the fact too, and deleted with the month’s budget. Nor is this meant to  stop it. Any of it. It’ll be strange. I suppose she’s one of the fifteen (as you were), but I think at some point she fell from the list. Well, she’s back on for a month and a half. You sat there the whole time. The moment I saw the need to count who’s what, and why.