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Dictionary Lesson (Free verse) by Dovina

When I said, “I love you,” and soon realized its reciprocal, “You love me,” and its result, “We are in love,” and much later, with its contrary, “I don’t love you,” and finally its opposite, “I hate you,” and when, after a long hiatus, its many reverses blured into, “I have no feeling for you,” I realized my dictionary is a history, written ahead of fact, a compendium of devolution.

Dovina 19-Nov-04/11:25 AM
You are wrong on all counts and especially on No. 6. My dictionary, read in the feeling of the time, is a history written ahead of the events in the same way Shakespeare was in some parts of it. Anyone who cannot see simple relationships, out of time, out of place, like that, can only write unfelt poetry having a form of art, but lacking any feeling, such as yours.




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