Quotes from Ancient Emails

“It’s not the mice in the walls.
It’s their pauses.”
His library was Swiss cheese.
He was a Master of Listening Disasters.

“It’s dark. I see only the parts
of the black cat that aren’t black.”
(She wore the Hindenburg sometimes,
too, so men would notice her.)

The snowmen have unionized
in the night, while we slept.
“Crystal beings of the world, Unite!”
Screamed the pamphlet none of them could hold.