And then he began to struggle.

He found he had nothing to say
on the subject he’d selected
to say quite a bit about
as if he opted to write a thesis
in a language he didn’t know.

What he had here,
he realized,
was a failure to communicate.

Would that stop him
in his quest for the day?
Would that slow him down one instant
as he strode forth as a polemicist?
Yeah, probably.

This could have been better thought out…

Perhaps with less distance between his subject
he could approach the matter better.
If he got closer, and addressed the matter
two people more personally
maybe he – sorry, maybe I –
would find something more to say.

Shit. Still nothing.