Brevity Is...

The idea was there,
a poem that said all
one needed to say
about brevity – in a
few, pungent words.

And I never wrote
those words down
like I ought to. Now
I have just bones of
an idea with no clue

how it would look
when fully fleshed.
I think it started
– and ended,
“Brevity is...”
© 21 July 2007, I.D. Carswell