“I don’t like to judge…until someone says ‘libarry’ and then I do. The place with all the words? You know what word is not there? Libarry.”
Ellen DeGeneres
words
Honeyed Words
Words are flowers,
blooming in their own time
we buzz and buzz in our colonies
some of us make honey
The Weight of Words
Replacing the word “should” with “could” will emit more positive energy.
Word Nerd Undeterred
Four 4th grade girls stand around, bored. I grab a board game out of the recreation wagon. “Here, play this, it’s super fun!”
They break into teams. Each has a pencil and paper. They shake the word box more violently than necessary.
“FUM!” Yells one girl with glee.
“Fum” is not a word!
Yes it is! Fee-Fi-Fo-FUM!
Mrs. Wipff, could you look up fum? Is it a word?
I look it up. “Well, according to Wikipedia, it IS a word: Fum is a traditional Catalan Christmas carol.”
The group disbands shortly after that.
Too many words. Kind of boring.
Boggle is the bomb! How can they call it boring? Maybe I’m just a word nerd.
1988
Ambition Bird
so it has come to this
insomnia at 3:15am
the clock tolling its engine
like a frog following a sundial
having an electric
seizure at the quarter hour
the business of words keeps me awake
i drink hot cocoa
that warm brown mama
i would like a simple life
all night i lay
poems in a long box
it is my immortality box
my lay-away plan
my coffin
dark wings
flap in my heart
each an ambition bird
