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words thrown together –
but not in sentences.
without verbs, present action:
alone
disjoint
inert.
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. – Germaine Greer
Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. – Benjamin Disraeli
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I
it doesn’t exist
i would have to make it
but i already know
exactly how it would sound
it would have to be guttural
no shortage of x’s and k’s
throw in a few gh’s for good measure
(not whiny like nigh but vicious like rough or ugh)
as few vowels as possible
(for they only sustain
and i want staccato)
seven letters max, six or less preferably
one syllable, necessarily
a good sturdy onomatopoeia would work
like CRACK
it would have to be
a hard word
an unrelenting
brutal
visceral
facepunch word
with abject finality
like CRUNCH
because if i use this word
to scream out how i feel
i would want everyone to hear it
but only once
and then for it
to be
over
as quickly as possible
—
II
(i think after that
i’d like to try
)just once have the chance(
to create
some singy songful word
a ringy longful word
with plenty of vowels in it)
(and shout it
in an empty waiting cavern
or to a patient black sky
that had been starving
a long time
for such a word
and when at last it heard it
it would joyfully say it back to me
whispering echoes
while i slept)
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they (mostly) lie
some backwords some forewords
scattered haphazwordly about
buried earthword like earthworm like
land mine
stumbled across
a flashbangboom
hurled hurtled skyword
hurting like small sharp shards
,
my word
such a fickle fumble thing
ever spiraling
downword
so poor a steword am i so
awkword
.
naught to do afterblast aftermath afterwords
but move
onword
upword
and (hopefully someday
heavenword
,
homeword
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