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extirpate

Today's word is

extirpate

Man, this month it's been nothing but good words, with lots of luscious verbs like this one, but I've been too tired, busy and stressed to make use of them.  I've been remediating whenever I could find a minute, but it's really not how this is supposed to go.

Dang that whole having a life thing!  It's so interfering with my blogging!

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Wednesday, 7:09 p.m.

Ah, yes, it is so delightful to fill in blanks.

joy --
so easily extirpated
completely extinguished
by a thought
unless you labor to keep it

sorrow by contrast
engraves itself
with the ease of a sharp point
following oil across fine silver
straight into your flesh
sometimes with a flourish
then dissipates slowly
if at all
and always leaves scars

Posted by on November 20, 2007 at 09:11 PM in verbs |

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