within your power.

Actually no, it's not

important to be understood. It's important

to be clear.

To mean what you know you mean,
and not

something else. This sits
solely

among your burdens, which
ride duly upon your shoulders,

as long as you don't shirk them.

And it is entirely
within your
power.

That
other people

understand you

is an accident,
a concern possibly,
and none of yours;

To be busier meaning
what you say

than striving fantastically within the other's
imperfectly-imagined brain, tweaking tone, twisting points,
spinning them 90 to 360 degrees to appreciate

difference of perspective, angles of rotation,
arc and yaw, and other aspects of "how

will they take it"

is your business. What you give
is your business. What they take

is accidental. Partial.
A creative and experimental collaboration

between inference and implication,
so leave yours out, why don't you?
Hanging out for all to see.

As clear as you could make it for the world,
without contortion and adjustment for each

little mark you're trying to con. Each
little oyster you're trying to imperil. Each
little bird you're trying to line up

for the stone.

No.
Be about
meaning what you say, and put it

unmistakably. Directly.
Unquestionably. If they fail

to understand, fine then.

Take questions and answer them.
One by one, once again,
following where they lead

- all the way home. Being understood

is not important. Just like being
fallen in love with

is not important. What's not within your power

cannot be important. Just give

what you mean. Give

what you feel.

Give others what they need,
if they want to.

If they see their way clear
and want to take it. Don't lead them, or sell them,
or spin them. Just find out what you mean,
where you're going with it,

and continue.