Ignore the bold below please:
Spoken schmoken
Do not worry about these words. They are not armed.
They are assembled. They have however been pressed
into service. They march toward but never reach
the edge. They are freighted but not loaded.
Other words command. They bristle with intention.
Achtung! Crocodiles! Across Northern Queensland
multi-lingual Germans are forewarned riverside.
Now let us turn to another bracket of words:
those unexamined words issued by mind and mouth,
at volume. Rat-a-tat words, unsentenced outgoings,
non-words even. Whoops. Hollers.
When you are under the covers in the night
it is these
that are the killers.
bw
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