Pride Poetry Day 18 (Poem B)
Theme: Unlabeled Sexuality/Gender
A special thank you to @leafgorge, and you the reader!
dictionary (this author does not condone the burning of books)
dic·tion·ar·y
/ˈdikSHəˌnerē/
noun
a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.
no word fits me
no nametag sticks
before peeling off
words are meaningless noises passed through dry and busted lips
I dont need your words
I’ll evade your descriptions
Long enough for you to understand
I dont need them
I’ll burn the dictionary
To the ground
Raze the words you speak
And rip them from your throat as you try to protest
Ok so Paul McCartney added verified annotations to some of the songs on Egypt Station and his annotations to I Don’t Know are SO funny to me.
First, he literally gives us nothing and just restates the lyrics.
Him starting the sentence “Yeah so” is very funny here. Also, again, he gives us nothing.
You can tell he wrote this comment first, even though it’s for the third verse/ bridge so it appears last. First, I love how he manages to get a “you know” in there, despite the fact that this is a four sentence annotation on genius.com. Second, his inability to say that he was having a problem without saying “JUST LIKE A NORMAL THING LIKE WHAT HAPPENS TO NORMAL PEOPLE IT WASN’T SERIOUS” is so funny to me. He can’t just say he was going through a difficult period without qualification. It’s very amusing.
I spent the whole day so far trying to remember what this song was and who it was by based on one little snippet of the chorus that kept looping in my head, I’m still so fucking mad
finding a song with some lyrics that are absolutely perfect for an oc and then some lyrics that are so entirely contradictory that it just doesn't work. pain and suffering