This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2000-06-08 23:04:17 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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JUST WORDS: NO Particular Meaning

A word, for her, is simple clay, Not part of any rule of thought; She is not audience to cause But lives inside the pause between End of performance and applause, A silent place where she can note In disappearing ink, the words the Moving finger paused and wrote. She is good Carroll's Cheshire cat A smile perched on a shelf of mind Explaining that a word is what She says it is and not a sign. It is her mission to reclaim Pejorative from the design, To make the world a pleasant plain By purging words of depth of grime All loathsome sounds of history She has resolved as Stalin did And Vronsky tried, to redesign. She sinks her head in sound to hide. The world is stage and hers alone Her garden sprouts old nouns to weed It seems that, in her lexicon No Inquisition's ill conceived No slaughter but would conjure up A pleasant romp; and all pejorative and hate Pour though her sieve to porcelain cup.

Copyright © June 2000 Rachel F. Spinoza


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