Adjectives

Beware of adjectives, my little bird.

Don’t collect stray letters on your shoulders.

God forbid,

you don’t want to be

an enigma amidst certainties ,

a stumper amongst answers,

a cliffhanger amidst other cliffs

that don’t mind whether 

the tides erode, or the drops of water whet.

Don’t collect stray letters on your shoulders,

my little bird.

Short words aren’t mulled over;

they are well-defined.