each of these words is worth less than twenty cents

(Bone) Marrow, naivety, lucidity, and pith,

These are words that have been on my mind.

Do writers write to expel and express,

or do they write to be cleansed in hot water?

A word is quoted at twenty cents. Can several syllables

touch a face value?

Deliberate,

when decided,

Tell me: who says

And then

who feels it's so

Not our writer, surely, through maybe though

some satisfaction of stringing a sentence

up high,

a point appointed and sidled

furtive along long margins.

The reader, maybe, if they can

If a disregard is regarded regarding: the dog yelp,

the wine spill the beans over the comforter

the chimes chime the metal cling!

the brooms brush over the carpet

all Time falls into a char pit.

A perplex I give to you and back you hand me a

Slightly simple stare

Your eyes are flushed,

stop the faucet

I’ll take my twenty cents.