Poster boy (Lao Tzu)

It sounds really good to me because I can relate, especially this line;
" the mouth, on the other hand, becomes exhausted if you talk too much.
Better to keep your thoughts inside you.”

I have found this to be true for a few other reasons also. lol

Eddie, please put the Lao Tzu quote at the beginning of the poem.

My mouth is an endless stream
of words
Which entombs me or sets me free

(My mouth entombs me
and sets me free,
in an endless stream of words)
[more poetic and to the point']

Beautiful well thought-out ideas
Encompass my brain, but
When I speak something else is heard

(Beautiful images in precise words
swirl around my head, when I speak
something else comes out instead)
[something playful, entertaining is called for here,
maybe a reference to a parrot, etc.]

I must be a marvel of science
Where the mouth and brain
Work in separate universes

(Wow!)

They say;
“What you think is not always what you say.”
Then I am the poster boy

(Wowser!)

~Ac

Could not relate to this at all as I Sever nay other than what I mean.....................Now let me sell you some prime real estate if you believe that lol. The only hitch to me was repeating words which is a bit awkward in a short poem. You could replace first words with speech perhaps................................stan

this is superb, right up my alley. The theme, and the way you framed it is smart and sharp , concise and transparent,
and makes a vibrant poem.

The poem flows well until the last stanza, the last doesn't fit smoothly,can't think of a Replacement. At the moment.

Lou

ok i won't lol

lou