reassurence...
                     wrong...
                             reassurance...
    english as a language
       is still (or at least i am:
                  user)
grapling with æ...
much less with œ...
                          perhaps
it's the alphabetical
proximity of a & e...
               perhaps it's
simply the alphabetical
coherence...
worse still it's
      adam & eve siamese:
fabled the myth
who learnt death -
but didn't learn
how to forget -
   constantly stirring
up the dead...
which became
  the modern shadow
of a man:
or the grey mass
                      interlude.