Some bounce in with speech

Words in their tongues do glisten

Never ever in their lives

Have they shut up to listen

The quickest way to offside others

Is to yap and yap AND YAP

Those who are speared by your words

Yearn to give you a slap.

Listen first to others

Synthesise with care

All the things they utter

‘For you respond with care

Knowing what the subject is

And thinking responses through,

When you respond with answers

They’ll have respect for you.

Those who Yap by habit

Are people that I fear

Have tongues that are far too long

And embryonic ear.