kindly accept my refusal
to attend your most excellent party
that would no doubt give me great pleasure
any other time
but there is a tempest sky to watch
and a prairie to receive her cyclone fumes
an unrepeated house
leaning into the coils of an eddying rush
and I unrepentant
leaning with it
exacting my brain
to breathe
but I am sure your martinis are lovely
KarenHansonPercy
The most important is if you really do care to respond when there are so many more less mundane possibilities!