Words not dead

Ing | July 24, 2010

By chance tonight, I read these two poems one after the other, randomly leafing through a little book (”30 Timeless Poems”) I found on the Young Lad’s nightstand.
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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
Emily Dickinson, “A Word Is Dead”
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I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me [...]

Vampire cats and paper rats

Ing | February 18, 2010

These are two pretty cool things. They have a nice ring together, don’t you think? If you’re the creative storytelling type, they’re just rife with possibilities.
And it is their rifeness that brings them here.
Alas, it is not my imagination nor my storytelling in which the possibilities with which vampire cats and paper rats are so [...]

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