garbage - for god's sake drop all this crap about words

oh no: we are not alone in language: we may
be alone in words, at least, almost alone in

speaking them, not alone (Koko) in understnding
them, at least reacting to them: we are nearly

alone in words: but the words do for us what other
languages do for others - they warn, inform,

reassure, compare, present: we may be alone in
words but we are not singualr in language:

have some respect for other speakers of being and
for god's sake drop all this crap about words,

singularity, and dominion: it is so boring
when I hear it a hook of anger in my guts tears

the lining: the world was the beginning
of the world; words are a way of fendig in the

world: whole languages, like species, can
disappear without dropping a gram of earth's

weight, and symbolic systems to fare you well
can be added without filling a ditch or thimble:

~A.R. Ammons
from 'garbage'