9.28.2024

a slight cold, a slight headache

A slight implies 
if not an insult 
(real or imagined) 
 
at least something 
unpleasant— 
 
a slight cold, 
a slight headache. 
 
No one ever says: 
"You make me slightly happy." 
 
Although this, in fact, 
is often the case. 
 
[Elaine Equí {1953- } 'Slight', from Sentences and Rain]

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