The trials of life are a stylistic Rubicon:
Nouns are particularly problematic
The concrete ones
their sharp corners
Prick us
Trick us
Stick us
With their exactness
While their abstractions
Are like playing
With a bar of soap
In the maelstrom
Verbs on the other hand
Evict us
Depict us
Convict us
With their exactitude
Such attitude
Have they
The demands are unreasonable
Take action
Seize the day
Resolve
Dissolve
Keep moving
Even when the animation
Is enigmatic
Adjectives are the worst
Save for their misunderstood cousins
Adverbs
And together cause tumults and commotions
Describe us
Bribe us with flowery promises
And a vague sense of mystery and apprehension
They are forever crashing parties
And won’t go home
Even when asked politely,
So thoughtful
Good God
No one has the power to tape down
Sticky strands of truth
With just the right words
–it’s madness
It’s mendacious
Let’s just leave aside
Gerunds and participles
Giving me migraines
So pretentious
Walking
Talking
Forever balking
Can’t seem to make up their minds
They are making me schizophrenic!
Prepositions seem necessary
But I feel trapped
By in their exigencies
Crushed under their wheels
Besieged by setting and context
They refuse to walk away . . .
And the nerve of articles
Little nosy busybodies
Always imposing limits
Like a traffic cop
On the grammar highway
Conjunctions give me hemorrhages
Forever coordinating and subordinating
Defining relationships
The marriage counselor of syntax
And now what?
But I digress . . .
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