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The Source
There are only so many words in a language
that you can stall with
before fabrication fades into sequence. Old words,
chewed-up and tasteless things,
get dusty and soft, like old baseball gloves.
If there ever was an autograph on the word �sunset,�
it�s been worn away
with the unraveling. Sunset is useless as a collector�s item.
But, when placed in the right position,
at the exact line drive moment it is needed,
it makes a whole new kind of magic.
Poetry is that�the
eloquent way to say dirty. Four letters describing
the sun.
Strangely, I suffer a vocabulary which, no doubt,
has words that are not translatable from English.
Being aware of their presence
without the skills necessary to segregate them
presents me with a new kind of lack.
Such words can go back to a fresh expression,
but the experience of learning them is different,
the second time around. Perhaps I would appreciate them
more;
the beginnings
of a curve, as if language itself could be slipping around the edge of a plate.
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