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Rated: E · Poetry · Writing · #1820684
Bored in the journal, I pulled out some dictionaries.
Word You

If I use a word unfamiliar,
does your listening persevere?

Do you try to learn the meaning
or find my language too demeaning?

You might pull out the dictionary,
an able language adversary.

Or you find this condescending,
and think I’m just pretending.

But in the Nation I’m a citizen,
we play a daunting paroxysm,

to which I offer agitation
for fun, learning, and perturbation.

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