Chasing Meaning


Words slide down the caverns of our mind
making rubble piles at the bottom.

A slippery slope of meaning go with them
and unable to stop, the meaning is lost.

Left on the slope to become detritus negligible
is the atomic essence of language.

At the bottom of our cavernous minds we collect
the rubble and use it unknowingly.

Using words like maces we keep others distanced,
separated from us, from our confines.

Skinny, fat, dumb, stupid, love, hate, ugly, beautiful
are only found in the bottom rubble-pile.

While left on the slope are the in-between words, the modifiers
and us at the bottom scrounging for meaning.

04/14/2003

Author's Note: ...we use words as though they were pillows annnnnd also as if they were grenades....

Posted on 04/14/2003
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