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Words couldn’t care less

Know words are thoughts
born in minds that know
how to shape them into waves

for mouths to send into oceans
of air for eardrums to transform
into sensible silent thoughts.

Know words, know that once said,
like spent cartridges, they’re dead.

Dave Read

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