Negotiating

Negotiating, drafting
a compromise, agreement
meeting of the minds
hand-written and informal
tweaking the formal
the proposed, the typed
the distributed version
the one that was
faxed and duplicated
sent into the stream
to see if the fisherman
will catch some bites
testing the waters
We bit but we had
conditions
conditions that were met
with a bit of negotiating

August 10, 2006 18:43


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