why i am a bad conversationalist


i thought of some really good things

to say to you today

but i didn’t write them down

because i didn’t want to have to explain

what i was doing

to the people i was with

in the small confined space

of a moving car

where there is no escape

if you mispronounce a word

or punch someone in the face

or in the gut

really hard

by accident

and now i can’t remember

what i wanted to say

the way it was

i can’t get the phrasing right

which is important

because i was planning on turning it

into a poem

after i said it to you

once i had your response

and i think it would have been a good poem

but i will never know for sure

it will be like spiritual salvation

or how i feel when i am in a room with a person

terrible

my brain does not tell my voice box what to say

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