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Words of A-Dress Pregnant with poems, dressed in white The letters bounced around when I walked As I danced they tumbled and jumbled Creating clashing conflicting words Words of love, verbs kicking and punching Nouns and pro-nouns – proper or common Words that fancied me Words that forced me to do things I didn’t want to do Words that dreams are made of Mis-pelt words – Freinds Words that tore families apart - Lies Words that built bridges and words that pulled them down again Peace, War Hidden meanings – redrum Silent Letters – unspoken Unpronounceable words Letters in bold – Money, God Metaphors and similes, living or dead Implicit - shut your face Simple – hot headed Uppercase and lower case words MONEY, love Words with unstressed and stressed syllables Da dum, perhaps Words of assumption, you’re okay Familiar words – mummy Unfamiliar - daddy Vowels, A as in man E as in women I as in irresponsible O as in masochistic U as in unhappy Words that play games Words that humour me When I don’t want to be humoured Formal and informal, Hi, hello Technical words, Information overload Or Data compression Word offensive, disapproving me Vulgar, ugly, flash panneys, grotesque Pro beginnings and ology endings Bracketed words Italic with accents Counta and contra- dicting herself Misunderstood words Women for example The wiggle and jiggle Created morning sickness The taste Sometimes salty, bitter But never sour Caused an immense after taste Pleasant or unpleasant, depending I opened my mouth Cat like, a hairball of letters Streamed out of me All over my white dress, They danced and uneasy dance Likened to a stripper on her first night My dress now decorated by unrecognisable patterns Words but no colour Black on white Words creating forms Shades of grey creating structure The dress became heavy The words became more - more weighty oppressive Like tower blocks, hiding the sky Cumbersome in their use In their take over I kept this dress in a protective wrapper Under control And took it out Only when necessary I didn’t want to cause harm To offend To displease To die They could have Killed me The words that is…
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