lost. [lawst, lost.] having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as to place….
Last weekend I got lost. The person driving knew where we were going or at least understood in which vicinity we were heading. But, my sense of direction is always off. I’m toast without a compass. I’m trouble even with one. So after roundabouts and wrong turns, I knew only that we’d pulled up somewhere in small-town Wisconsin in the midst of something strange but in a place full of story.
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King Kong, upset by the breakup with the movie star and a ban on the skyscraper, settled for the farmer’s wife and the slope of a rusty roof.
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The kangaroo appeared jovial with his constant bouncing from stoop to street to neighbor’s porch for tea, but the giraffes were not convinced and eyed him with suspicion. He moved too quick, he spoke too fast, and he had no spot of real definition.
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And the woman behind glass, though very patriotic, had nothing to say about the state of the union.
Then again, maybe all she needed was a microphone.