The 5 second rule applies. 
You just write it and if it falls on the floor,
it’s safe to eat if you pick it up
within 5 seconds.

Yesterday’s trash thrown out the car window
makes the best of stone soup
warms your belly on cold winter days
but gives you diarrhea the next morning.

Words fall into the current.
They skip against the surface tension
like a comet bouncing off our atmosphere,
but eventually sink like stones.
If you pick them up within five seconds,
they’re safe to swallow.

And rhymes are last year’s fad 
now passé like the Barbie pink dress
made from shiny stretch fabric
and memory foam.

The editor promised you a spot
at the fold of the saddleback,
but he must have forgotten
and when you burned the mag,
the flames turned blue and green and orange.
Five seconds or not,
don’t pick that one up
and eat it.