THE NOMENCLATURE CLUB
I guess I joined it when I was twelve,
and then forgot all about it, and now
I make no excuses : for what I did.
I gave names to everything I saw.
Zingy, character names : Like fool,
ass, idiotic, useless, capricious,
unfounded. Even when they were
not 'names' per se, I used the word to
describe the thing. 'That noble,
pierced cowboy is the ass of a
shine some girl has always been
seeking.' Maybe that gives you
the idea of what I'm saying.
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And then I drifted. Just floated away.
My meaning and intensity, it seemed,
was gone from all those things, and
I no longer cared. You have to care
to name. Otherwise it's empty fluff.
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