What Did He Really Say? Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is not at
all times that this
would be
hysterical, or
meaningful or
enigmatic, for at
times

when you are short
of imagination, or
fall out of meaning,
or loss of purpose
you settle for the
mundane,
or the most ordinary,
and simply be
general about what to
say,

less gentle,
sans tenderness,
more direct and candid
and straightforward in
the most basic sense
not even common sense,
and you end up
despite the length of
exhortation,
and without considering
the perseverance of a
resilient reader,

and to his disappointment
or teeming frustration,
you the honest thief
and clearly confusing
credibly incredible scribble,
actually
end up saying nothing
at all.