not saying things

Jul 11, 2008 03:57

Say some thing. Or not.

Whenever there is some thing worth saying, a way to not say it may seem more meaningful or at least convenient if not convincing. Not saying says that the thing is beyond or beneath or beside our regard. Saying says that the thing is of import to the hearer or necessary for the teller to let go of.

The things we omit when we talk to ourselves, the things we emit while we balk at any sense of limit; the strings we walk when we stalk celery hearts; the loosening, the lessening, the lessoning, the lessor ring left forgotten in the pawn shop. The worth of it all a gamble: a gift of graft, a gaff made of gaffe, hard to find as a hickey on a giraffe.

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