5.8b

[I was reading a post by a blogger I don't read--one of you all's friends? Anyway just stalking it up a little and he wasn't a particularly good or effective writer (his writing was so passive as to cause in me a reflexive whine) but he used this one phrase: shoulderless shuffle. And I could see exactly what he was describing and it was beautiful and I'm stealing it.]

My neighbor walks with a shoulderless shuffle and a lowered head. He once was proud--veteran of two wars--but time has bent his head low. His hair is wisp and wild. He's my friend.

I don't know him at all.