lip service 10/2/16

is it perfectly alright

for one to lip-service verbally

as if to grease the pole of personal interaction

as long as one also, slides on by.

then again, if one’s personal, prominent priorities

were listed down the front of one’s current wardrobe,

say, top, t-shirt, sweater, or jacket

and legible to face to face observing parties,

then lip-service could become a thing of the past.

there would be less need for the dubious decode

and more of the directly understood.

fickle would be more of an accepted character trait

and forthright, a motive for friendship.

conversation of this nature,

at times, is like verbal dodge-ball

with what is said as tossed.

but what is heard as meaningful,

maybe be a direct hit,

a glancing blow or just chat, finding wind.

luckily gravity has the means to be a certitude

but lip-service can be more like passing gas

within a polite silence

as part of its impactful but disappointing presence.

it is as if lip-service has a smell

eventually, and it stinks.

lip service can be,

as if spoken from the fart . . .