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Ambiguous Isn't
By Joe Pivetti

Usually, when you have junk, you pay 'em to pitch it away, but in baseball, if you have the right kind, it makes for a pitcher's pay day. It's mindful when a Brit uses his loaf, but it's idle when done by an oaf. Compression is ceded with the stub of a toe, but causes reenrtry tension when in want at a show. When rescued from the drink, you won't mind being wet, but when drink is you're rescue, it's your mind that's upset. In business, you hope that a contract continues to grow, but in growing, you hope there's no contract in the output or flow. When committed, you're steadfastly reliable, but in an asylum, you're probably pliable. High IQers can join up with Mensa, but when in Spain, if they're called mensa, they're muy idiota. A dope is usually quite wrong, but dope dope...is good intel, all the day long. A clock, when wound up, is pretty taughtly sprung, but if you've wound up in jail, it's bail that'll have to be brung. A car on a rail is well trained, but a rail in a car was something a driver disdained. With your ducks in a row, you’re aligned, but when having a row, you’re crossing somebody’s mind. Most people see love as their everything, except at places like Ashe Stadium, where, gamely, it means nothing. When a bagger sacks your groceries, there in, but when a boss sacks a worker, they're out on a limb. You’ve trunks in your bag, when off to Hawaii, but you’ll put it in reverse, on the drive to Na Pali. Stumping, is pulling up roots for a new forest bed, but on a campaign trail, you sink them instead. Members of a flock stick together, but when white on a Christmas tree, it’s stuck on the members. In class, lit up pupils that start early are great, but in our eyes, lit up pupils dilate. In foundations, auguries get concrete and set, but as harbingers, the firmness is not yet vet. Scissoring a lock leads to a tress, but bolt-cutting one leads to arrest. An auto that gets gassed is fit for a journey, but if you get it, well then you're well wearied. If ashen, you probably ail I suppose, but Milkvetch, that's Ashen, is as blue...and violet and rose. If you hem and you haw, you'll likely be late, but if your hands haw at a hem, it's the end of the date. Usually a dozer moves earth, but when in a hammock, he's in a heavenly birth. Being keen about something is never too bad, but then as you keen you'll show that you're sad. When snowplowed, a drift is quite driven, but it's not tied-on fore wood...'til on-the-shore that it's sitting. A fetching woman is well met, but if a Lab, then she’s probably all wet. If a number of things, you have many, and yet...you haven’t the number of any. On farms, good crops come up quite nice, but on obstinate horses, the crop comes down thrice. A hen that lays 144 eggs is something to boast, but if you eat 'em all, well, that's just gross! If you stay, you must bear it, but if it's grizzly, you beat it. When a tree leaves, it sap can get richer, but when a love leaves, the sap is the poorer. An arch, like the one in your foot, is a well rounded joint, but as a suffix, it comes to a point. Something in front is fore of another, but, when it's post swing of a club, you're the other. When delivering pitches, they come from the soapbox or mound, but when you're receiving, they're from pipes or tar pits in the ground. When two people jibe, they agree, unless they're sailing into the wind, in which case it involves a falling out, and maybe a dip in the sea. When you're put on the spot, you've got to act cool, but if it's at tea, hot and cozy's the rule. In physics, inertia is a product of momentum, but in people, it's an unproductive physical moment. "For aught we know" is all about all, but when we have aught, we have nothing at all.