#1406 - just one word

 

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just one word

 

it came back

 

and in no time

 

found us where we were needed

 

words do require us

each is a kind of habitation

and they congregate as well

they’re human

and yet

have you ever come under

the spell of one word?

 

some think they’re really someone

mostly though…

 

doesn’t every sign make some sound?

 

grit and gist

 

in the word a picture

in the picture – time

 

imagine the first of all

spoken and gone

 

we are not going to get that back in a hurry

 

but it’s like that with every word

 

conditions must be right

are you listening?

 

there are all sorts

 

instance

a word under cover

spoken against

 in a hot moment

 

a quick word

nothing really meant

 

a word by the way

the odd instruction

 

opus set off

 

one word oeuvre

 

one word leads to another

to thing

 

there’s the frame again

conversation consisting of words

you could say

or come about by song

 

and all of them under the sentence of breath

doomed as each is to expire

 

each word with

its own relentless truth

fierce, abandoned

as any

and duty bound

 

think one of them fighting words

loose like the canon

and some reprise

 

yes, they must be thought

no accidents there

 

speech parts with us all

 

think of a word from one to ten

and that’s how long you’ve got

 

such word a trick of whimsy

one to shape the mouth

 

often forgotten

but tip of the tongue

 

they ask me what language that is

I have to admit –

make it up on demand

 

you just have to say the word