Tuesday, September 25, 2007
What Word For This?
a word to begin a game of hide & seek
a word to disguise a meaning of the thing it names
a word to make a promise not kept
a word never spoken
a misunderstood word
a single word for driving home
in a drizzling rain
after midnight
while remembering
someone I loved saying goodbye
what word for hearing Billie Holiday
& knowing the words of her song are lies
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
a word to disguise a meaning of the thing it names
a word to make a promise not kept
a word never spoken
a misunderstood word
a single word for driving home
in a drizzling rain
after midnight
while remembering
someone I loved saying goodbye
what word for hearing Billie Holiday
& knowing the words of her song are lies
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