cross purposes

He talks about
and about
and about
you and I and us and we, 
needs and wants and demands
jumbled
like a bumblebee
in a banyan tree.

She thinks about flowers
tumbling into leaves,
and the strangeness of the word
about.

A Manual of Life - Alternative Definitions

Winter
n., An excuse to lower your ironing, and bathing soap, bills by hiding behind well-worn warm outerwear.

Also see:
Resources conservation; tea-addiction; "One can never have enough socks"