SMALL TALK
The fabric that ties
is not made of heavy yarn
For lives are woven by thin threads
So it is with you that I like
to listen to the ordinary
For when I ask,
what did you do today?
And you say, dismissively, “This, that,
and the other—nothing, nothing really happened”
The big things are for everyone else,
The small ones are for me.
— © Abraham Menashe