Why Ask and Smoke ____ AKSHR

Why Ask and Smoke

Every person I work with knows something better than me.

My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it

While I ask, my mouth and throat are full of smoke.

When I am asked, I must spit it out so as to answer.

Without the smoke there is nothing to say,

but without words I would not know where to look.

Without looking, I cannot find what I am looking for.

I cannot use what I cannot find,

so how can it be better than me?

It’s true that everyone knows something better than me

—but they don’t know how to listen.

____ AKSHR