the moment it's a rumour it must be true the moment it's a moment it's more so the sudden unleashing of opinion the framing of narratives is it unfair to say the hope? hands poised above archetypes going ahead anyway circling round the story closing in on yet more evidence the fierce thrill of certainties another line to be repeated another set of certainties the embryonic story poked examined and loved, so loved, maybe even lusted after and so precious, here see the quiet tears of the stillbirth the heads turned away the phones turned off the relentless shifting of paragraphs