Candor's virtues, or should we say

Merits?

Candor exceeds Frankness 
in virtue by so much
it's unspeakable. "Candor" 

comes across like some 
super-planet sent a magic baby 
through space to save us. "Frankness"

just sounds like some asshole is  
so proud 
that's his name. And Yet, 

Candor can't introduce 
a remark for shit. "Candidly"? 
What, am I diddling your can
with that? I hope as shit not!
For fuck's freak sake "Frankly,"

excels even "Honestly," and beats 
cat crap out of "Sincerely," 
on that score! Let alone 
"Accurately," please. Nobody 
intros remarks that way outside 
of maybe Asimov, and I'm not 
sure even he'd. It's ass-apt 
and cockeyed in the eye 
of the mind even to contemplate 
that. And if you DO it, you've 
got one cocked tongue, buddy. 

But candor hasn't even any options, 
strongest of the lot as it inarguably 
(in all candor, mind you) is, as 

Not only a noun.

As a virtue.

"Candor" 

is not admixed with meaning-it, as 
sincerity is, with "correspondence
to truth" as honesty thinks it is - 

but really it just means "believing 
it." Let's be honest. It does, and 
that's all honesty does. Sincerity 
means, honesty believes, Frankness 
tells, but candor - frankly, IS. 

Well. Maybe that's a stretch 
but I believe candor fully means it. 
It don't intend to; it DOES mean 

it. 

Literally it. 

In all candor.

Yet what the fuck are we left with,
to introduce our remarks? The goody
-goods. The also-rans. The virtue-cig
self-puffers and huffers, who 
- frankly, their integrity 
is all shot to shit these days. 
From so much ill-false use! 

By the way, let's start dismissing 
things with a sneer as "ill-false."

That's a mind-bender. 

Maybe that's why candor shines. 
So. Because - it adverbs like a 
bitch, so we're not so used to 
it. What good are these words,
if not to modify actions? If not

to introduce remarks?

I'm sorry. I had to say it, "bitch." I am 
not so unfrank myself, you know.

It's my sincerity. I'm so mean 
I mean it all, and honesty 
- in me? - is at best a dishonored 
by-product, side-effect of sincerity, 
no policy at all. When you aim 
what you mean in right-word 
by-word point-first accuracy 
with force of clarity - who thinks

of being honest then? Do you 
include untruths in what you mean? 
Shit. Honesty's ace, and maybe 
ought to be a procedure of sorts,
for assholes constantly wondering 

"how shall I put this?" THAT'S 
CREATIVITY ZONE! THAT'S

where the benevolent excuse me
beneficial advantageous "lie" 
creeps in. And double-excuse 
me, why were you even wondering 

how to put WHAT YOU MEAN?
DON'T YOU KNOW?

I fucking do. It's the only thing I mean. 

So. Point is. 

Candor's underuse as remarks-introducer
(due to utter-shite adverb form) is 
a hidden strength. An advantage. A 
power position not a defect or problem!

And I propose a solution, no. 
Several. 

Candidly? 

Try candiduously. 

Hm. No that's awesomful, in the bad 
sense the -ful suffix adds to awe, but
more -somely. For emphasis. It 

sounds like candida. 

CANDIVOROUSLY. 

YES. 

I HUNGER FOR CANDOR

wait! No! I'm full of it! 

Shit. 

This problem cannot be solved
by one alone. We await 

some super-planet's magic baby 
to save us. And he shall be called 

Fuck. Let him tell us that bit 
of show-business himself,
okay, please? CANDOR MAN!! 

THE LIVING TRUTH AS-IS! 

With his glorious and far more 
efficient-in-battle scandalously 

both-underaged-and-sexy sidekick 
Candidly-Kiddo! He, she, they 

I dunno. They clarify. Candiduously, 
wherever Candorman slips a gaffe, 
puts a foot in it (due to an overconfidence 
that rises in him almost to duty, given 
all at stake) and tells it like 

it ain't-quite. 

To his credit, he never really gets it 
much farther off than that. Well, 
it's a superpower he has! Rightly
so! But that sidekick of his is 

one hell of a corrective 

to rectify the world-tilting slip
he made. Didn't we start out 

talking normal? About words? 

Candor is ice cool and heartwarm, 
and is the best and priziest of all
the true-class virtues, because of 

well, 

probably, 

underuse. But

That's not fucking candor's fault!
It's that damn adverb. 

That's Candorman's weakness. Every

fucking.

time he tries to modify an action 
he's doing, he done fucked up. Big loss. 

~ Except! ~ 

88-92% sidekick saves it. Great 

team. Kudos kiddos! Good job, 
AttaBoy! AttaGirl! AttaWho! 

I address BOTH, with ALL those 
terms. Let us fucking respect the 
gosh-damn secrecy and private lives
of these fictive vigilantes who protect us
via faculties and capacities we don't
understand, and have no hope
of thwarting should they turn

Evil! Please! 

I think that's probably the best 
course to deal with the sheer 
and underexploited force 
of candor. Imagine

if candor ever turned against us.

I'm not saying we need to propitiate,
but shit. At least placate a little. We've 

SEEN the good of candor, haven't we?

Have some hope! Faith, 

being a tad passé by now, 
in minor minds, I feel 
sincerely I can honestly 
appeal at least to hope 

still. In the best of us, 
still. If not, 

hell. Candor will rise up
like an unleashed beast,
and smack some of the wrongest 
ass imaginable until sidekick steps in

to save each day. 

Correct. 

Thanks candor!