BETTER INTERNET

I Failed To Comment

Cutting back on emissions

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I failed to comment
on your story

I typed a few words
but deleted them

I didn’t want to say
the wrong thing

You never know
with a mouth
like mine —

it should come
with a safety
valve

but it doesn’t —
sometimes shit
flies out

uncensored,
unfiltered
unasked for
unwarranted
unnecessary
uncalled for

so I zip it up,
pack it in,
swallow my
whimsy, bottle
my exuberant
belligerence

I think Coach
calls it Better
Internet

Some things are
just better left
unsaid