THE LEGACY OF WORDS

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words paint even the unthinkable

whether slaughtered martyrdom

or ethnic cleansing

every sentence spoken or writ owes words

their very lives

on the page gestures can be no supplement

man is the only injection of sanity or insanity

words have

we are empty vessels of loathing self hatred

and isolated fear

without the use of words

in a wordless world

there are no bridges

only water

to float upon

or drown in

words are the boats that come

to save the survivors of

such nothingness hell

imagine Shakespeare without his words

hmmmmmmm

who is he.........

oh nobody

just a guy who died several hundred years

ago

poor, alone and obscure

that he would indeed have been

without the amazing contribution of

what?

his

words.................

(written Jan28,2005 240pm)


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