Friday, October 3, 2014

Language Valentine

One still hopes to elude
the usual categories
of speech and movement
and say something
exclusive and remote
such as five thousand years
of human literature have entitled
us all to be speaking
the way the vowels are the soul
of the word and the consonants
the body which holds it tight
against itself so the language
doesn’t matter it’s just
the color of the moment
how many different words
since we started to make them
have there already been for love
and we still haven’t got it right

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