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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 22-Nov-04/4:47 PM
I think you credit me with too much reason. While I find fascination in these words and the ways their definitions paint a history, it is not strictly philosophical, though everything has philosophical bents. Some say there is no philosophy without words and the only things we can talk about logically are words and numbers. Maybe so, but if so, there is no fun, and without fun, what good is logic.




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