Pencil, pencil, sweet utensil,
used for freehand sketch or stencil,
say what fearful paw or wing
can make you dance, can make you sing!

Except, of course, we're addressing pens this time around,
permanent, confident, ink to think
grandiose concepts of time and of space,
modest assertions of beauty and grace,
all within this one tube,
this single, simple, satisfying tube!

The closest approach to telepathy
the human race will ever know,
expanding upward from fingers' grip
through the limbic system,
limpid, lamp-like, loving,
to envelop the words and picture in my head
and deliver them
gently, jaggedly, germanely or not,
for all the indifferent world to see!

Behold! And be held!