the dud man wanted a saint but she failed his mean test even after a faint and a feint with a huge sigh he let it rest took up his rucksack and left she cast him a long wistful look her slumped pose the picture of internal dejection and anguish sharpened by an endless lament that she'd not shown him his theft of the aching heart of a live woman of vibrant flesh, blood and dreams she longed to tell him straight she was not an idea to be analysed and later discarded like an abused rag but the unkind distance engulfed him even as the rays of the sinking sun blended their gold with his yellow attire thus she knew as of that unfeeling day such mishaps were the very fabric of life