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Words,
words, words
Can
be profound
Can
be absurd
Can
be political, sardonic or satirical
Be
sublime
Rhyme
all the time
Be
blank verse or much more “LA LA
LA LA”
lyrical
Words
can shock you, knock you, mock you, and rock you
Being
stuck for words can…writers’ block you
Words
can be the latest gossip that you’ve heard
If
you’ve drunk too much they can be sssluuuurrrrrred
Can
be amazing, engaging and incredible
Can
remain etched in your brain, permanently indelible
Can
change the way that you perceive
Your
ethos, your ethics, how you behave, what you believe
They
can be side-splittingly stupid, “HEE HEE” hilariously hysterical
Words
like `one’, `two’ and `three’ are much more numerical
Words
can appeal to your insanity
Or
touch your humanity
Can
be so deadly, destructive and divisive that they stop your flow…
They
can make a lover stay or go
Turn
a friend into a foe
Turn
peace into war
Build
you up
But
bitter words can be the final straw
(Is
that why she walked out your door?)
Homer
Simpson’s favourite word is “doh!”
Words
can take out your most powerful enemy with a single blow
Words
can make you
GROW
Into
a better person
Or
shrink and shrivel you into a worse one
They
can convey banality, ingenuity and ambiguity
They
can produce anxiety
Make
you worry, stress and sweat
Make
you doubt
Make
you regret that we once met
Or
make you laugh or cry till your underwear’s soaking wet
Shout
“Buy! Sell! Buy! Sell” and they’ll increase the national debt
Simple
words can even be understood by your pet: “SIT!”
Do
you know all the words to this week’s
number one hit?
Words
can infringe your human rights
Set
your imagination alight
Make
it ignite
If
you’re cheating in your spelling test then keep your words out of sight
Words
can make you want to Google their inner meaning
Reach
for a dictionary or a thesaurus
They
tend to be repeated when you join in on the “CHORUS!”
Words
can send you to sleepzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Especially
if you think that talk is cheap
@#”#@$%
swear words are often blocked out with a “BLEEP!”
Words
can be illegal
They
can be libel or slander
They
can unconsciously be copied from a song by Bananarama
They’ll
help Obama launch a verbal attack on Osama
Or
vice versa
Grammatically
incorrect words can make you speak worser and worser
They
can be weighty, mighty, tiny or diminutive
Can
be actually absolutely alliterative
Or
lead us to sometimes split an infinitive
Words
can make you relax
Till
you’re calmer
And
calmer
And
calmer
So
you can comfortably slip into your pyjamas
And
spend whole weeks meditating like the Dali Lama: “Ummmmm”
Our
words are the sum
Of
who we are
If
we couldn’t say what we wanted to say
We
couldn’t even describe a wordless day as ` greyer than grey’
And
when I’m long gone
And
I am history
These words will go on and on and on
So
you can still unravel their mystery…
Words,
words, words
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