<<had you but posted

But it didn't belong in animal safari, it was a response, a reflection on the sticky price of rules; it was a smile (true), a winged intending for your beloved--fated sadly to home to roost in a province beyond authorial intent.

All of that and more: it was toad-bit maxim* mishappen and ugly, clumsly--a maxim so out-maxed as to occupy the space of three proverbs with the substance none.

*Disclaimer: as a greeting it was not toad-bit. [care-in-speech emoticon]