Stitching a Look

Language lays out the most
Elaborate toolkit

Any species ever
Invented. You can play

At fitting facts with it,
Like a clothes designer

Deciding if the spring
Collection should be tight,

Down to millimeters
Between words and what is,

Or extravagantly
Loose, billowing mainsails

Of assertions barely
Grazing the skin of things,

As if the language lived
A being of its own—-

Or anything between,
Ludicrous, extravagant,

Spartan, controlled, precise,
Painted like glue on flesh,

Whatever you want words
To do, whatever for.

Shall we lie this season?
Shall we embody truth?

And yet, all shows end up
At least a bit of both.