Don’t talk with your mouth full;
it tends to make you spit
your half-formed thoughts into
another face,
helpless, embarrassing.
Don’t talk with your mouth full;
select and season; savour.
Don’t talk with your mouth full,
cutting and calculating,
rearranging reason;
consider.
Talk with your heart full;
empty it humbly at another’s feet,
to walk all over if he will...
(November,
1987)
