December 2, 2018

My Words

I am a plain, uncomplicated man

of plain, unprepossessing words

were they to achieve a fame

more lasting than their due

please don’t do this to me

don’t read me and say:

“What this means to me is …”

I am far too simple a man

to have written of your thought

in place of my own

your first fast view of me

is most often correct