Don’t let her speak to you that way

In what I thought was profound and

sound advice to one so much younger than myself

 

But I confused her all the more

 

I don’t know what it means

She said to me, hesitating,  hoping not to offend

 

It means what it says, I said

 

It just doesn’t compute, there are no pictures

in my mind to explain this phrase, she offered

 

I stood there not getting that the image

I could see, existed only in memory, for me

 

Press off, a red X

 

Ahh!