Idealious

It’s nice to have short lines to read.
It’s nice when the poem is compact.
Wouldn’t you like a collection
Of poems where every word’s exact,

Each lyric fit snug to its page,
The whole book packed, pocket-sized,
Crammed with honest observations
Whose wisdom combines with surprise?

What a museum that would be,
Each specimen within a lens
Beveled by diamond suffering,
And every lens a specimen.