What better name for one who'd analyze
and scrutinize the sources of logomachy,
a philosopher who filters truth from lies,
our building blocks, the seat of aetiology.
A thinker's thinker, one who ponders well
the implications of a life-long gleaning,
'composed of' and 'comprises,' just a single cell
in her journey to examine every meaning.
Though new expressions find their way to dictionaries,
they bastardize, dilute the power of language,
'snuck' instead of 'sneaked,' no real propensities
to offer something better, (tawdry verbiage!)
To communicate with skill, singular fluency
takes 'savoir faire,' a knack for etymology!
...to Juvie
What better name for one who'd analyze
and scrutinize the sources of logomachy,
a philosopher who filters truth from lies,
our building blocks, the seat of aetiology.
A thinker's thinker, one who ponders well
the implications of a life-long gleaning,
'composed of' and 'comprises,' just a single cell
in her journey to examine every meaning.
Though new expressions find their way to dictionaries,
they bastardize, dilute the power of language,
'snuck' instead of 'sneaked,' no real propensities
to offer something better, (tawdry verbiage!)
To communicate with skill, singular fluency
takes 'savoir faire,' a knack for etymology!
Hearken - comes frost,
snow, comes hail;
comes
sounds - echoes, whispers,
soft post-mortem screams;
scalpel dripping
whines, hisses,
squealing smithereens;
silvery dust-blown
comes mouths, tongues,
shhhh! lips;
comes rhetoric, stigma,
dogma’s tarnished
catechism;
rust tainted; blood simple, comes
religion,
war,
death, comes
pain,
desperation,
despair, oh inhumanity.
Hearken - comes white noise,
slavery, autocracy
jackboot aetiology;
the nature of
the beast within
us all.
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