THE WRITER'S CHOICE

Be frugal with your words; let idle thoughts
stay idle, unexpressed until such time
as meaning grasps your mind, and snarls, and plots
in straight-lined lobes to give reason a rhyme.
Or, use your words in undeserving praise
of gooey, messy, doubtful thoughts. Lay low
the beast that means, and make your words a way
of saying things that you don’t really know.