While some short pieces are blatantly flippant and ambiguous, others are meant to prick the conscience, tease the imagination or touch the heart. Love and loss, joy and sadness all included in these garbled musings. The author believes that rhyme and reason have their place in most poetry books, but in this inconsequential mix, literary theory has been tried, tested and, in most cases, cast aside. WORDS ON A CRUMPLED PAGE is an eclectic mix of poetry and prose by fiction author, Margaret Muir scribbled on scraps of paper over the last twenty years.