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| January 01, 2002 | Warren, Deborah | COPYRIGHT 2002 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Prepositions

 
   After, about, above, across, among-- 
   around the table, bent upon cognition 
   just by rote, she paces with a long 
   list of prepositions: 
 
   A catalogue of locus and direction, 
   polky words so insignificant 
   you don't identify them by inspection 
   but mnemonic chant. 
 
   What's a preposition? If I ask, 
   she rolls her eyes and drops the book and frowns 
   into the mirror (there's her proper task): 
   "It's, like, before a noun." 
 
   Are girls--or kitchen tables--absolute? 
   Although they ought to easily exist 
   without the donkey-words that ...

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