A Vocabulary
i have a new word for you,
to illustrate
what my poetry is all
about,
it is this word: blabber,
it is not the one
who reveals confidential information for money,
i am not that
sort and my poems are not
that kind, oh, it is something else,
blabberblabberblabberblabber
bladder,
could be a bladder
one that stores urine
but there is no urine here, i smell like a wild flower
like
a dama de noche, a champaca, an ylangylang,
something else really,
not the betrayer, informer, squealer, rat
canary, fink, snitch, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon, sneaker, snitcher,
not a sneak
someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
neither am i a
copper's nark nor a
supergrass, grass
well i am more like this: a verb form of
i speak about unimportant matters of my life
(don't believe me
i am just ironic)
rapidly and incessantly
gabble, gibber,
palaver,
piffle,
prate,
prattle,
tattle,
tittle-tattle,
twaddle,
blab,
maunder,
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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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