Improvement
Ali Memhard
In writing the first line, you change
each word to better the piece
or suit your need.
The idea scalding your tongue:
Your hope is that it will smolder
falling into the tinder and setting the damp grey matter ablaze.
Dissolution as the piece separates
into two and three time lines,
shallow floods over the fields of potentiality.
When each word is used to hit the desired note,
where is the evolution from cacophony to symphony?
Or later, from lovely to loathsome?
Dissatisfaction with the first draft and the final script,
the flame flickering, then falling to smoke.
Your need for the more perfect word misses the target
and burns the paper.
each word to better the piece
or suit your need.
The idea scalding your tongue:
Your hope is that it will smolder
falling into the tinder and setting the damp grey matter ablaze.
Dissolution as the piece separates
into two and three time lines,
shallow floods over the fields of potentiality.
When each word is used to hit the desired note,
where is the evolution from cacophony to symphony?
Or later, from lovely to loathsome?
Dissatisfaction with the first draft and the final script,
the flame flickering, then falling to smoke.
Your need for the more perfect word misses the target
and burns the paper.