ecargo19 Nov 2002

Wow. And ouch. This is terrific. I love its spareness and immediacy; also, the internal rhyming and the double meaning of "mean." Agree with you re: doubling "it's nothing"--a person, reacting, would surely have said it twice, dazed.

Was this originally "the weight of your words"? I think I'd prefer the "your"--"those" seems too removed.

Have a 10 for your pains.