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# Utter
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/utter/
- Published: 2023-05-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-05-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I'm trying utter honesty for size. The soup could use more salt, I tell the wife. Cold, withering contempt within her eyes... I leave for work; she's sharpening a knife.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I'm trying utter honesty for size.  
The soup could use more salt, I tell the wife.  
Cold, withering contempt within her eyes...  
I leave for work; she's sharpening a knife.

You're vacuous and lame, I tell the boss.  
He's urged me in the past -- be fully frank --  
get fired, promptly -- never mind, their loss.  
Time to discuss the mortgage with the bank.

The longer I have gotten in the tooth,  
the harder to glaze over the inept.  
I must be missing something... Why is truth  
so difficult for others to accept?

The teller tells me: sir, you have no money.  
I call the wife: hey, what's for dinner, honey?