(influenced by Gertrude Stein)
 
Can we really agree on a word that is what
it is and cannot mean anything but what it is?
When we are given a word, can we
ponder it or are we just to accept it and say it is
what it is? And we hear and we accept and we know
that it means what it says and it says what it means.
But sometimes it’s hard not to question
The meaning when the meaning is slippery
and the acceptance is futile. Slippery words and accepting
people have never mixed.



Published by Rain Farm Press and its literary journal Paradigm.
Copyright © 2007.




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by Megan Proehl