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Happy While United

from The Dignity of Man by These Estates

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This is a call for a new dictionary
for the things that don’t have a voice,
born into this world of language
and not given a choice -
everything from rivers and oceans
to intangible notions and thoughts.
This is a call to be
the unsayable’s polyglots.

Brutalist architecture
is beautiful in its own way
if you just take a second to
figure out what it wants to say,
cause everything has got its own dialect
to breathe down deep into your lungs
(e.g. I love the Romantic languages,
but I’d do anything for your Slavic tongue).

So wrap my guts in curly punctuation marks
and then say them out loud.
The nuances of the way I feel about you
can be difficult to pronounce.
Find me a word that means in simple syllables,
“To find one’s heart in one’s mouth.”
I’m not just making idle conversation,
I have gotta hear that other sound.

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from The Dignity of Man, released February 22, 2014

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