So much depends on a spoken word,

The thought, the notion, the phrase

Held until the end of days.

So much said is left unheard.

Ideas that were once held true

No longer seem valid, spoken with dread

Nothing that is left is new,

So much depends on what is said.

02/11/1978

Author's Note: I remember I was reading Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons"

Posted on 06/11/2008
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