Less Than Fresh

I just found a P. S. feature that I hadn’t seen before. It’s the one on well-known clichés. If you use them you’re a bore. I thought I’d take a look to see if I had been guilty of using other folks bright phrases in a way they’d disapprove. I was surprised that many thoughts I believed were mine alone had before been poetically expressed and were not mine to own. It was like being asked to write an essay extraordinary, while being banned from using words from Webster’s dictionary. Since I am so many years older than are any one of you, perhaps when I first wrote them they were entirely new. If so I have a legal claim to some of them, you see. It’s not I who am transgressing. You’ve been stealing them from me. Won no. 9