Tonight's Poet Corner: The Reformation Of Speech
The Reformation Of Speech by Belinda Roddie eventually, language becomes too sweet and too thick on the tongue and words begin to weigh a ton behind aching teeth given meaning before they have a chance to be born, given a purpose they do not have a say in when we get to that point in communication, we will mostly speak in static, in buzzing dial-up tones, trying to restart some process in our addled brains where all the holes are filled with rich and creamy sensationalism the fake is real and the real is fake the facts have grown legs where their arms should be we have mutated the truth to the point that no linguist can spare it, and the streams of our vocabulary run dry our observations reduced to the glaring obsolescence of a singular noun