Cannibalistic Words

if animals can eat their kind
then could some words be the same--

cannibal?

i have seen such a thing
that some words devour 
the words before and even after
capacious would fit the bill

it actually devours itself
; an irony with it's self
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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