Would You Want It?

Would you want the ability to hear other people's thoughts? Of course you would. Everyone answers yes to that question; until they think it all the way through.
For example, what if other people could hear your thoughts? What if they could hear your thoughts...right now?
Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true-that aren't really how we feel; but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about. If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings. Is it a stand-in-a symbol-for another idea? Does it fit into a larger, more hidden, metaphor?