The Primer

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She said, I love you.

He said, Nothing.


(As if there were just one
of each word and the one
who used it, used it up).


In the history of language
the first obscenity was silence.

-- Christina Davis

Comments

[sliverofsanity.livejournal.com]

I like this. The last stanza seems almost completely unrelated, like a random fact, when put up against the scenario. But then you realize what it means, and the whole poem shows how much it hurts.