The sell side exists only because the buy side trades before we can understand when the sell side is profitable.

“Spratmo,” the base grapevine, hummed with reports that the squadron would ship out any day now—or maybe in two months

It helps after long interviews, to back-announce the interviewee and the subject.

The ambilingual poet (as I regard myself) dealing in the transcription of his or her own poetry, though one would assume able to take more liberties, ends up having more trouble in fashioning equivalents.