the purchase
your cellphone clung to your ear
like long ago it had imprinted itself there
and your words filled
what should have been respectful silence
cutting with biting remarks
& how many pseudo-philosophies does it take?
this word, pretentious, is
what you are dichotomously seeking
both to fill your critical description
and to lend a warning about yourself
as the poet dances, ballet-shoe softly
around your cyncicism
these books beg your sielence
for they are but trying as you to impress
with emptyness, mood, and through subtlety
after you go, i apologize
to you, perhaps, as a lesson in respect
but more to thse books on behalf of my speicies
then i discuss fluidly the intimidation of blank.