he always trying to sum up her
with one of his epigrams
but boiled when she did the same
declaring
“I’m not like that. You’re reducing me to a
bookmark quote.”

and she’d say
“I’m not. You’re reading too much into my nonsense.”
and he’d sigh
shrugging his eyebrows
suspecting he was guilty too
guilty of ignorance
of hubris
but still
he couldn’t shake his feelings.