Oh Kay

That breathy murmured OK I use
a lot? You know the one: OH, upscale note
followed by KAY, deeply resigned, as
in "task identified, job accepted," 
but embraced?  I  don't  Think  So...
And, then, as I passed a bedroom door, 
Brussels, 1998, my brother, (lost to Alzheimer's 
in two years time), I saw him rise from bed 
with the same OH KAY addressed to no 
one.  Assisted living, that OH KAY.
In Tibet, there is a saying, "For every 
valley, a different dialect."  
But this OK is universal  language,
the possibilities galactic.

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