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Monosyllabic

 LET me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord.
Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool, on a child.
To-day, let me be monosyllabic … a crony of old men who wash sunlight in their fingers and enjoy slow-pacing clocks.

Poem by Carl Sandburg
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