Wasted Breath
If your verse
is not remembered
Then all that time
was lost
Pretty words
and clever lines
Will melt
like Winter’s frost
If what you say
is subject
To what the wind
will blow
Time better spent
the less you vent
All verbiage
— to forego
(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)
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