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.