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Because We Respect Words, We Wrestle With Them
Suggested by a Thought from Temporal Fugue
Because we respect words, we wrestle with them
And because they respect us, they wrestle back;
We shape them in order serviceable 1
And they refuse to be pinned as cliches’
We fling a needful verb against a noun
To make a thought complete, but then adverbs
And adjectives begin cluttering lines
And then we all must take a coffee break
Because we respect words, we wrestle with them
For every scrap of story, verse, or hymn
1 Cf. John Milton, “Hymn on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”
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