LJ Idol Entry #2 - Three Little Words
Oct. 28th, 2011 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stHere we go. Here we go.
This means war. War is hell. What the F***!
Give me liberty. Give me death.
Keep it simple. Shake it up.
I love you. We are through.
I’m just kidding. We are one.
Time is fleeting. Yes, it is.
I love words. As a writer, they are the tools of my craft. As a poet, I play with them. I don’t know when I first became fascinated by them, but there is actual evidence that I’ve been a poet since childhood. I offer you my first poem:
The cat sat on a mat.
The cat saw a rat.
I want that
said the cat.
It doesn’t scan very well, I know, but I was only in the second grade when I wrote it. I have, also, begun to suspect it isn’t very original. But the point I am making here is that words are a big deal to me and always have been. Words can wound. They can heal. Even the smallest ones can have a huge impact, changing the shape of reality in the space of a heartbeat.
Mom is gone.
Words have resonance and associated connotations. Let them linger. Savor them on the tongue. Remember they are metamorphic, symbols of things and always transitioning. Take the word gay. Once a happy-go-lucky fellow, it is now often spoken in the dramatic stage whisper with accompanying shifty-eye syndrome. Is it a bad word? George Carlin assured us there are no bad words. “There are bad thoughts, bad intentions. And…words!” I would apply the same principle here. There are little ideas and petty intentions, and then there are…words.
One little word can change the meaning of an entire document…for example, when “I” becomes “we," responsibilities shift. Lives are irrevocably altered when moving out becomes moving in. Or I love you becomes I love him. As for the littlest words, the all too common articles, “a, an, the”, well…as the Doctor told Harry Sullivan, “You might be a doctor, but I’m the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.”
One little word is all it takes to turn a positive into a negative. Yes or no. String three little words together and you might just change the world. Yes, we can! No, we can’t. I did it. You did it. This means something.
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This means war. War is hell. What the F***!
Give me liberty. Give me death.
Keep it simple. Shake it up.
I love you. We are through.
I’m just kidding. We are one.
Time is fleeting. Yes, it is.
I love words. As a writer, they are the tools of my craft. As a poet, I play with them. I don’t know when I first became fascinated by them, but there is actual evidence that I’ve been a poet since childhood. I offer you my first poem:
The cat sat on a mat.
The cat saw a rat.
I want that
said the cat.
It doesn’t scan very well, I know, but I was only in the second grade when I wrote it. I have, also, begun to suspect it isn’t very original. But the point I am making here is that words are a big deal to me and always have been. Words can wound. They can heal. Even the smallest ones can have a huge impact, changing the shape of reality in the space of a heartbeat.
Mom is gone.
Words have resonance and associated connotations. Let them linger. Savor them on the tongue. Remember they are metamorphic, symbols of things and always transitioning. Take the word gay. Once a happy-go-lucky fellow, it is now often spoken in the dramatic stage whisper with accompanying shifty-eye syndrome. Is it a bad word? George Carlin assured us there are no bad words. “There are bad thoughts, bad intentions. And…words!” I would apply the same principle here. There are little ideas and petty intentions, and then there are…words.
One little word can change the meaning of an entire document…for example, when “I” becomes “we," responsibilities shift. Lives are irrevocably altered when moving out becomes moving in. Or I love you becomes I love him. As for the littlest words, the all too common articles, “a, an, the”, well…as the Doctor told Harry Sullivan, “You might be a doctor, but I’m the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.”
One little word is all it takes to turn a positive into a negative. Yes or no. String three little words together and you might just change the world. Yes, we can! No, we can’t. I did it. You did it. This means something.
*****
This is my entry for Round 2/Topic 2 of LJ Idol at
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Date: 2011-10-29 02:48 am (UTC)Total Rocky Horror flash!
love the Dr Who reference ^_^
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Date: 2011-10-29 02:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-10-29 02:52 am (UTC)Let's do the Time Warp Agaaaaaain!
Apparently, we share an interest in time and Timelords. Or cult oeuvre. Glad you liked the Doctor Who reference. It is one of my favorites. Because I'm a word nerd, no doubt.
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Date: 2011-10-29 12:46 pm (UTC)And I am glad you stuck to the spirit of the BBC - always love that little backpedal DJs do when talking about a product!
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Date: 2011-10-31 10:03 pm (UTC)I liked this entry!
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Date: 2011-11-01 09:52 pm (UTC)Great entry!
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Date: 2011-11-02 12:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-11-02 01:56 am (UTC)I so glad that you enjoyed my entry.
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Date: 2011-11-02 05:16 am (UTC)Put another way by the great Terry Pratchett, in my favorite quote by him, "If you give a man a fire he's warm for one night. If you set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life."
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Date: 2011-11-03 05:27 pm (UTC)$#@%!^& Awesome! Thanks!
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Date: 2011-11-03 09:00 pm (UTC)*snicker*
I wonder how many people get the Close Encounters reference at the end? Or, for that matter, how many people know who Harry Sullivan is?
Thank you so much for your AWESOME comment.