How did you know to take that off?

Two years ago the answer would have been forty minutes of my life and three open tabs.
Today: because it came off the pins heavier than it weighs.
I have a name for that now. It is not in any of the papers.

Somebody asked me in the changing room and I gave it back in one breath.
Then I stood there holding the answer, trying to establish where I had bought it.

The Book of the Scholar — Return 42:4