I sip scotch neat. —— play chess; laugh at blunders. —— reset the board; make new mistakes. —— exhale. At the next table, four kids drink shots; explode! —— compare accomplishments; grow loud —— make plans to win. I want to say Lao Tzu says: “Time doesn’t matter. —— demons are friends; there is nothing lacking…” But what do I know of things. I sip more scotch. —— move a bishop out of the way. — WILLIAM WATERS
William Waters is an associate professor, in the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown. Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation. His research and teaching interests are in writing theory and modern grammar.