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A tiny aphoristic page that treats repetition or second chance as the wiser share.

Its strength is its incompleteness. The phrase feels like a proverb broken down to essentials, leaving the reader to supply whether 'twice' means love, error, memory, or survival.

Four words alone on the page: 'Twice is the / Better part'. It carries itself like the tail of a proverb - the head deliberately withheld - and quietly inverts the familiar wisdom that discretion or the once-said is the better part. Here it is the second time, the repetition or the return, that holds the worth. On a manuscript page full of revisions, it reads almost as a defense of doing a thing again.