< Cornhuskers
MONOSYLLABIC
Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord.
Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool,
- on a child.
To-day, let me be monosyllabic...a crony of old men
- who wash sunlight in their fingers and
- enjoy slow-pacing clocks.
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