Trite and true

The original title was "Blank slate", but after talking to my drunken best friend last night and reading this piece..."Hold on a minute...if you're going to read it to me, I'm going to need a beer"...he thought it was trite...not bad...but trite. So I said "how about 'trite and true'?" He liked that title a lot...actually so did I...it's so


Trite and true

This is the blank slate
The empty towel
Words, food place mats,
Perhaps even a blown nose
Yeeuck...better be thrown out
Words are sometimes like that
Better thrown out
Others come in, write themselves on this towel
Words changing as experience changes us
This is the blank slate
The empty towel
Waiting to be filled
Refilling our perceptions.

Denis Streeter 12/16/11