sleight of mouth
by Julio Chapluzki
and i talked
and talked
and talked;
i couldn’t stop,
lest everyone see
how incompetent
i felt myself to be,
covering it over
in misdirection
and subterfuge,
hoping to fool all of you.
and i talked
and talked
and talked;
i couldn’t stop,
lest everyone see
how incompetent
i felt myself to be,
covering it over
in misdirection
and subterfuge,
hoping to fool all of you.
Fantastic. My favorite piece of the last month.
thanks; those thoughts all came from my brit lit class in which i never feel like i have the faintest idea of what i’m talking about.
I might have borrowed the title.
But you spelled your title better. That is embarrassing.
luckily corrections are easy to make…