I don’t know why but I just love the people (well mostly) on this platform and their use of language. A source, too, of some of my chuckles.

So, to put a rest to your serious deja vu the first sentence in my post was as following:

The idea for this piece arose from a one-liner I wrote as a response to a prompt ‘uneven.’*

And finished with:

*My one liner which triggered my poem:
https://medium.com/chalkboard/tripping-along-as-you-go-8768b9aad953

Among concrete slabs
are the nonconformists
lurking around corners
waiting to trip you up
as you tread upon
the uneven patterns
of flagstones jigsawed
into the pavement of your life.

You were perfectly right. Thank you, Starkey :)