Something About Words

There are folks who write words and phrases

for a living—Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Get your words here! Newspapers, magazines,

books, biographical, historical, scientific and

political reports. Words, herds of phonetic

buffalo grazing tall grass on the Great Plains,

a flock of syllabic blackbirds from horizon to

horizon filling the sky, Hemingway words for

whom the bells toll, Shakespearean words, to

be or not to be, Anne Frank words of hope

believing in the return of peace and tranquility,

Maya Angelou words which flow smooth as

honey and potent as brandy wine sometimes,

mathematical words of Albert Einstein defining

space and time, Mark Twain words, a satirical

exposé on the human race, Martin Luther King

Jr. words having decided “to stick with love,”

words which twist the tongue, and boggle the

mind, words which fit snug as a bug in a rug.

What else can be said about words we choose

to hear and use today? Perhaps that words,

costly or free, do matter. Words, I do believe,

contrary to the old saying about sticks and

stones can either break or mend bones—

metaphorically speaking.

Chris Hanch 5-9-19