the too literal

sugarless blues
and the woes and the woos
how the sway of the stillness
keeps 'way the muse

and the too literal
way the words i choose
why no one writes poetry
the way you tell the news.

varicose are these verbose cues
the blood won't rise with them heavy shoes
and without blood words lack the living hues
and so the words cant out in cyanotic blues.