Category Archives: Language

Loathing

Posted on September 26, 2024 by sputterpub

I loathe it then – you waste your words to me,suggesting fruitless effort once again,or starting any statement “hopefully.”I loathe it then. I wish you’d mean it if you say amen,conversing with apparent empathy,or syllables that use no oxygen. Of … Continue reading →

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Return to Service

Posted on September 4, 2024 by sputterpub

The book was thick. I had to flick through inches till I foundwhat I recall as best of all. Pronouncing every sound,I read again the lines from when I felt my interest heat(and ever since, my fingerprints tattoo to meter’s … Continue reading →

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An Unreliable Narrator

Posted on August 18, 2024 by sputterpub

Of course I listened to my mom at first;I spent that time with her, and I was young.But over years I found she was the worstconveyor of emotions given tongue.She harmless seemed, but her pathologywas never given voice or even … Continue reading →

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I’m Not the Kind

Posted on August 2, 2024 by sputterpub

“I’m not the kind of person who does that”a dear friend often says, and every timemy brain a little wonky goes, our chatderailed a moment as within I chimewith “Kind? Are you a template? A format?”A person is a person. … Continue reading →

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Ambiguity

Posted on July 22, 2024 by sputterpub

I’m sure you pressed CAPS LOCK by accident,when you responded emailing to me.We have no quarrel and you never meantto mimic ransom-note hostility.But it looks harsh, no matter your intent.I think regarding screen, we should agree,because there’s ambiguity by word,to … Continue reading →

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Combative

Posted on July 8, 2024 by sputterpub

Whenever I in speech appreciatea day off after office work or kids,my interlocutor is bound to statethat nothing in my circumstance forbidsdevoting nearly every day to me.And that was even true ere I retired –my busyness is picked deliberately;by diverse … Continue reading →

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Ex-Dream

Posted on June 23, 2024 by sputterpub

I dreamt last night of one who passed awaysome time ago. In sleep I saw and heardhis face, his voice. And strong I longed to sayforgotten phrases that would be absurd,for I have learned, surviving to today,how impotent and vain … Continue reading →

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The Argument

Posted on May 31, 2024 by sputterpub

The modem and the router have to talk,and something made mine argue overnight.I woke and had no internet. My squawkwas modulated – I behaved all right –a round of non-electric tasks was quitea worthy use of time till I could … Continue reading →

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Weird

Posted on April 30, 2024 by sputterpub

There used to be an umlaut on the “i”I read somewhere, and two beats in the word.The origin meant “wayward.” To applythat knowledge, when I saw it what I heardin mind was “way-erd.” That would satisfygood spelling, for “i,e” would … Continue reading →

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Desultory

Posted on April 29, 2024 by sputterpub

I’d made it past mid-century. My storywas more than halfway spun when I employeda word I’d only read – said “desultory”with accent wrong. I laughed, for I enjoyedthat token youthfulness. When I was tenI mispronounced determine “dee-ter-mine.”It tickled me that … Continue reading →

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