Axed

 

  take a dull axe

     to my blunt tongue

 

   watch it swell

     with all the thoughts

         I mean

 

    but shouldn't

 

       tact it down

 

 and the words I say

         convey

    softer notes

 

   caressed by moist lips

 

    not sharpened

      by these whetted stone

 

          teeth