Monday, August 17, 2009

dictionary.


He always promised he would write a song about me.

Not in those words.

Not in any words.

(he saw the danger in forcing together unwilling vowels and consonants)

His dictionary was in a continuous state of revision.

A simple handhold forced me to flip tirelessly through the pages of his latest edition.

At times I found myself searching for a shorter, less complicated dictionary.

One that wanted to be read.

One that I could read from front to back.

They seemed appealing at first.

But I have always been a fast reader.

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