Like a Zipper
It's like a zipper
opened then closed
when foolish words express
the errors of a random guess.
It's like a button
a spew of words reveling
searching for the hole
in things we barely know.
It's the mouth speaking
and the exasperation expelled
without the input of the brain
when there is nothing to gain.
It's the lessons that we learn in youth
that every word be kind or else unsaid
to speak no lies, only honesty and truths ahead,
for a fly does not enter a closed mouth.
for Julia Ward' Romani contest
8/29/19
Copyright © Dm Babbit | Year Posted 2019
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