Elmarie Westerink: Oh what a life in words

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Oh what a life in words

I love words the power of twenty-six to astound ….transform ….magnify ….equate ….diminish ….quantify ….belittle killing without a drop of spilt blood… giving birth without pain ending without mournful funerals and shiny ebony-and-chrome coffins… but often words are pernicious or ignominous sometimes oblique with the power to exarcerbate our pain; insouciant and thoughtless; filled with false sophistry under the guise of altruism; but your words my darling, reverberate in my mind and lifts me out... Sign in to see full entry.

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