Grapheme

He earned a paycheck by

instructing college students

in high school English.

The janitors never quite

got the dust out of the

corners of the molding.

He scavenged biographical

leftovers, including several

brief encyclopedia entries.

None of his researchers

provided any relevant clues

to the enigma.

To the modern eye,

the font they employed

looked skeletal and basic.

Women and men,

utterly different,

fit together just so.