Parts of Speech: Linguistic Love for Us in the 21st Century

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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DIVINE INTERVENTION by Francesco Granacci. Julius Caesar debates whether to cross the Rubicon in Italy. Source: https://brewminate.com/

 

 


 

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