Plain Talk for Plain People

When i compare aphorisms

to poetry or to essay

i can make no criticisms

of what the authors have to say.

All of them feel that they have to

express intangible feeling

and they do what they have to do

to make their ideas appealing.

In telling their stories with grace

it’s like the whipped cream on the pie.

But the readers they have to face

are plain people like you and i;

who find it hard to understand

their vocabularies so grand.

Walt Abbott–9-30-09