Do not tell me before you speak
what you are about to say
or tell me afterward
what you have said.
This is no class,
with repetition key
to understanding words,
no mind is lead
to thoughts' bubbling well
and forced to foresee,
then remember, the drink
that cooled this head.
No introduction, preface, puffery,
just speak the pertinent words,
let me interpret
the lingual thoughts instead.
To elaborate humiliates
our intimacy more.
Speak once, once, once only,
then let it lie, self-tenanted.