Speech

The sermons priests preach Through speech, The child instructors teach With speech, The business men their partners reach Via speech, The saving shouts at a child in pond with leech And requests to recreate on a beach In speech All powerfully elevate speech, Distinguishing this sensible sounds from a moved jaw. But certainly not for the Law We sometimes breach With offensive speech: The sick jokes we crack That betray the morals we lack And the seedy lies we tell In voices louder than bell… Man approbation receives for speech, ‘The Best’ The same man inescapably lampooned for the Immodest. A speech-producing child Is worth a carnival and thanks; No frequenting by its parents their banks For dumb issues, not a matter financially mild.