[nukkad] As and When

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Two stand under a tree, leaning on a convenient wall.

As: What strange names we have!
When: We have.

As: Who gave us these names?
When: Aunt Goofus and Duplicitus the Priest.

As: Who invited them into the labor room?
When: They are the price of familial ties and filial tendencies at worship.

As: You mean relatives and religion.
When: I mean relatives and religion.

As: What if I chose to disown the both?
When: You would end up with a wondrous name and a starving priest.

As: [precipitately] Then I choose to disown both and to the Heck with them!
When: And now you may name yourself.

As: [imperiously] I hereby name myself ... Zangra the Magnificent, ruler 
of all the Known Worlds.
When: [sotto voce] Hail, O great Zangra, we bow to thy magnificence.

As: [hears ring on cell phone] Yes? Sure. Will pick up the milk pack and 
the laundry. Bye.
When: Who was that?

As: My older brother's vixen wife, she runs the house.
When: I thought you had disowned relatives?

As: The word was easy. The deed seems difficult.
When: Then Aunt Goofus and Duplicitus the Priest are alive and well.

As: That they are. [Somewhat wanly] Be seeing you soon When.
When: Sure As.

[When watches as As walk away. Then When turns to go the his own way]

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