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By Brian Weilert

Words

and the ability to fling them about effectively

is power

Wars are instigated

avoided

resolved

by the manipulation of these small creatures

Words can woo, caressing the soul...softly

Or come hot and HARSH to heat up the CROTCH.

Words lash out and slice the heart into two unequal halves.

Oh, words are omnipotent

 

Unspoken words,

so piercing and pliable

they are able to capture a burgundy sunset

traveling as pure energy through the joined hands

of two lovers

or

Move as a silent glare

across a noisy room

PRESSING

hard down on the visual victim

voicing utter disdain. (Pause and glare)

 

The single word

NO

Accompanied with a slap

to the back of a hand

It is the first word we

recognize

Hot stove

NO

Tonguing the outlet

NO

Spewing the pasty spinach onto our rashed chin

NO

Caught crouched in a corner

Concentrating on the simple Freudian pleasure

of filling our diapers

NO, NO, NO

We learn about the boundaries,

the restraints of our universe

in one word

no

 

First words,

Cooed from the virgin throat of a child

"DA-DA"

causing pools to collect, pause....

in the eyes

before meandering down a stubbled cheek

to be smeared by a thick grease-creased knuckle

from a man who never cries.

a first time father

with a million words to choose from

unable to find a single one

to express himself

A proxy tear speaking on his behalf

 

Lies

from a child

claiming, "I didn't do it." (kid voice)

Red flushed cheeks fill

Downcast eyes widen

scuffed sneakers push dirt about at the toes

in a distraction tactic

innately programmed in those

who still have superheros on their underwear.

"The toad just drowned."(kid voice)

Dirt shuffle

"I found him that way." (kid voice)

shuffle, shuffle

 

Lost words

dodging, hidden just when you need them

ALL YE, ALL YE IN COME FREE!!!

nothing

An insult has been flung

a counter attack is mandatory

"I.....but......it was....just.....yeah, well you're a............you.....

nothing

You know the words are hanging out with Wit

heads thrown back in a thunderous guffaw

waiting to show themselves hours from now when it is too late

Bombarding you with retorts so cuttingly clever you

almost

pick up the phone

 

Simple words that change the course of lives

I DO

promising that you will be there

25 years from now

50 pounds from now

5 kids

42 pets cycled through

a double mortgage

mid-life motorcycles and mustaches

mastectomies, vasectomies, hysterectomies

"Would you still love me if I lost use of my legs?"

"Yes"

"What if I was horribly disfigured in a fire?"

"Yes"

"How about if I served you with divorce papers?"

(Pause)

"Just kidding."

 

Dishonest words

masked in a myriad

of smiles too big;

toothy cartooned gapes

crying out,

"Believe me cause I'm telling a lie!"

Politicians so in tune with the status quo

they know

just where

and when

and who to blow

 

smoke

at...