Today’s Worku waits for a REPLY, a word that seems conversationally easy until the other constraints begin making demands of their own. REIFY is the real obstacle here: abstract, three syllables long, and much more at home in philosophy than in a tiny human scene. The stronger poems give the reply a concrete occasion—declining liver, answering a party invitation, responding to a rescue text, judging sourdough, or refusing to answer at all. Debbie’s late entry is a neat example: outrage becomes restraint, and restraint becomes a perfectly polite “No thank you.” Elsewhere, some replies arrive loudly, some anxiously, and at least one is more powerful because it never comes.