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Delusions of Candor
a little grammar is a dangerous thing
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Created on 2009-04-14 19:53:09 (#60728), last updated 2024-03-03 (2 weeks ago)
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| Name: | lomedet |
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| Birthdate: | Jul 25 |
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lomedet18@gmail.comA Little Grammar Is a Dangerous Thing
Diane Ackerman
Once life was all verbs -
discover, marvel, write, love, dare.
You inhabit a land of pronouns -
I, you, him, her, us, my their.
Together we visit the past perfect's
gentry - all the haves and have-nots;
endure the agitated conditional -
what if, could have been, if only, otherwise.
But the intense mood is where
I really specialize -
Do I employ or implore you?
And also the first-person transcendental-
Would that my spirit took wing.
A word-slut, I'll tense anything
That dangles or can be modified,
spinning dreams of a future perfect,
until I suffer delusions of candor
and become a misplaced aberrant.
An idea in aspic is a word.
We could dissect that image
over lunch, wer it not for a cardinal
rule of analytical grammar:
never end a sentence with a proposition.
So you'll have totrust
that at the diner around the corner,
where the catch of the day is flu
and a poetic young waitress
rhymes her bell-like hips as she walks,
I've ordered you a caffe latte
and a double entendre to go.
Diane Ackerman
Once life was all verbs -
discover, marvel, write, love, dare.
You inhabit a land of pronouns -
I, you, him, her, us, my their.
Together we visit the past perfect's
gentry - all the haves and have-nots;
endure the agitated conditional -
what if, could have been, if only, otherwise.
But the intense mood is where
I really specialize -
Do I employ or implore you?
And also the first-person transcendental-
Would that my spirit took wing.
A word-slut, I'll tense anything
That dangles or can be modified,
spinning dreams of a future perfect,
until I suffer delusions of candor
and become a misplaced aberrant.
An idea in aspic is a word.
We could dissect that image
over lunch, wer it not for a cardinal
rule of analytical grammar:
never end a sentence with a proposition.
So you'll have totrust
that at the diner around the corner,
where the catch of the day is flu
and a poetic young waitress
rhymes her bell-like hips as she walks,
I've ordered you a caffe latte
and a double entendre to go.
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