I cannot determine
whether I pity or despise
those who live as hermits
betwixt the pages of the thesaurus,
coating themselves in a
hard outer layer of frivolous words
and paltry sayings, blanketing their
brains with meaningless terms,
acquainting their vocabulary with
the upper echelon of verbal society;
their ideas cheapened by tawdry words
in the cheap motels of poetry and prose.