Women had been …

a mystery to him.
This is an observation
about one of the main male characters
in a short novel I’ve just finished reading …
the comment is from an early page
in a captivating narrative … it
speaks poignantly to readers like me —
women have been a mystery
to many of us … women
continue to be a mystery
to so many of us … actually
if they were not I would think
something’s wrong …

D.A. (David) Pratt “continues to continue” in a comfortably conventional community in Canada … he is genuinely concerned about the burgeoning stupidity that seems to be virtually everywhere …