10-01-00

I should have been a diamond in the rough. Carefully cut and polished, a treasure to be revered, coveted and prized by those in the know.

I'll never be set in a Tiffany mount, polished, and wrapped around your finger, nor you around mine.

Instead I'm occluded, peppered with flaws, and suitable only for industrial-grade use.

I'm the grit on your sandpaper, the teeth on your sawblade.

Yesterday & Tomorrow.