Request For Tete-A-Tete

A collaborative effort this time. In anti-heroic couplets.

Of course an anti-heroic couplet will avoid iambic pentameter--so let's toss that--and will equally avoid end rhyme. Instead each line should begin with a word that rhymes with the first word of the line that precedes it.

You lead off. And again, refrain from letting the rhymes lead too predictably towards silliness.

It might be more of a challenge to attempt a measure of thematic continuity. That said, flow as you will.

Note: Refrain
from titling these.
That way the
lines might see
each other
more clearly.