CONVERSATION: NEXT TO AN EMPTY JAR
9/7/2026 1230pm
Speak plainly
Big words
make big statements
My dichotomy
Had a lobotomy
and we named her...
Supercalifragilistic
and she was adopted by a person with the last name of...
Expialidocious!
I was told
her life turned out to be quite atrocious...
So now, I speak in small words
simple words
quiet words
So you don't need your dictionary...anymore.
Just you
and me,
will sit down across from each other...
With a penny jar
and converse...
on all the topics in our head
that make us sluggish...
because they are sometimes too heavy
to hold our head up...
But the penny jar,
it is empty,
So...
Everytime we say a big word
a heavy word,
we put a penny in the jar
to remind us how easy it is..to
Speak plainly.
About the Creator
Victor Mendez
Born in 1958.There's a lot of road beneath these feet.Worn out pairs upon pairs of shoes.Been a ranch kid,a city kid,a Marine,a dad, a grandfather now,an avid reader and just recently began writing poetry in 2015 just to vent.
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