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From: nessus@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Words
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Date: Mon, 28-Jul-86 00:55:20 EDT
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Sometimes I hate words
Almost as much as I hate myself

Words let you ask for things that you don't really want
Words let you ask questions which themselves are lies
Words let you make promises you cannot keep

Words let you use me, without touching me
Without guilt

Memories fade much faster than ink
Words let me put down enough
Not enough to help
But enough so that I can never forget the pain

Words never let me say how I really feel
The important ones -- the ones that mean something
Are way too big to get past my throat
Even when they are small

And the words on my tombstone will be merely
An empty dream
-- 
Nessus@Eddie.MIT.EDU
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