Nowadays

Have you noticed lately how
when we speak, we search each
other carefully and pick
and choose every word?
Like two monkeys rummaging
each other, picking lice.
While words as lice, run about
trying to elude us.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Lice are bad, words are good...but only when they come naturally, with ease...
stilted conversation and uneasy silences add up to a broken relationship.
j.

[Tania Mo]

I rather keep quiet then.Thanx Jacob.

[Jimmy Yetts]

A stunning, surprisingly apt analogy.
Friendship can hardly thrive when "communication" is so stilted and standoffishly defensive.
Profoundly perceptive, Tania!

[Tania Mo]

Thanx Jimmy. :)

[Neville]

Nit picking or making mountains out of molehills can be extremely demoralising and or frustrating .. I think this little poem is actually far more clever than one might at first imagine :)

[Tania Mo]

Thanx Neville. :)

[Neville]

......... welcome

[alanwgraham]

You have described human interaction exactly here Tania.
Your image of monkeys preening each other is good.
All the best.
Alan

[Tania Mo]

Thanx Alan :)

[Chris Shaw]

Loved this, nit picking comes to mind. Of course at the mention of lice, most don't want to know. Understandable I think. Clever little poem Mo.

Chris

[Tania Mo]

Thanx Chris :)

[Miss Marlette]

Another good one. Really you should write moreee

[Miss Marlette]

Another good one. Really you should write moreee

[Tania Mo]

Thanx Priss :)

[JMichael]

The beginning of the end, this reads like to me. When nothing is left to say it's time to get out. I am sure there are some shiny assed baboons full of lice to be found. This one says so much in so few words, Tania.

[Tania Mo]

My previous bf and I had so many lice I cud make a nice phõ out of it. Tq Picasso.