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Waging Words David Citino
We’ve minted words for nearly everything,
even the state of having too few.
Take laconic—Lacedaemonian,
Spartan—of stoic, war-like reticence,
names like Greave and Shield, men who had
no words to forge a way not to rage,
encamp, cut tongues to stubs, blood and bile
flooding the lungs, survivors all their lives
signing regret, ravaged wombs, the itch,
the antsy twitch of phantom limbs. Those
of few words, Gary Coopers, John Waynes
among us, sheriffs, cowboys, presidents
have no resources beyond Yep and Nope
to speak the utter poem that peace can be.
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