Setting: Slice of Life, R for possible language

[grim_poet]

[there's a very tall, bespectacled man folded up at a table in the corner of the cafe you find yourself in. he looks like a stiff breeze would probably send him flying off into the sunset, and he's staring off into the distance, intently, a stub of gnawed pencil hovering in one hand over a battered notebook.

after a moment, he turns his head sharply and looks directly at you, as though he's been talking to you for hours, and you already know each other. you totally don't.]

Is 'aubergine' too elite an adjective, do you think? Normally I trust my own judgement, but I'm really not sure.

((A/N: Simon here is a poet who tends to write about controversial things. If there are any issues that you would rather NOT come up in the conversation, please note them in your tag header. For the most part, I will keep the details of his writing generic so as not to trigger anyone. As in his canon, it's not the end product that matters so much as the reactions to it and the things that inspire.))

Comments

Re: apologies for the lazy link. phone tags and all that

[useofcuriosity]

[Stiles reads, and thinks. Returns the notebook, once he's done.] I'm actually not sure what other word you could use.

[grim_poet]

[so many open minded people in this coffee shop, wow. he's impressed. with a quiet nod, he takes the book back] ... Thank you. I thought so, too, but. ..... I wanted to be sure.

[Henry would probably want to know why the hell he was asking common philistines about poetry, but Henry isn't here. and he needed opinions.] I'm sorry if I bothered you.

[useofcuriosity]

Oh, it's no bother. It's a good poem. For...what little I get of poems.