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The Right Word.(Poem)

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| April 01, 2008 | Dolphin, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. 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
 
THE RIGHT WORD 
 
   The Right Word is a bastard 
   conceived in anger and a proper rage, 
   and its parents come from provinces 
   where all rebellions start. 
   The Right Word is worse than pregnancy. 
   The Right Word cannot be delivered 
   in a comfy bed to the sound of soft music. 
   As it enters the world The Right Word screams 
   there is something serious missing here 
   and something had better be bloody done. 
   The Right Word is a mongrel 
   with genealogy so bizarre 
   that only a computer could unravel 
   whose bed or hillside had a hand 
   and whose genes got there first. 
   The Right Word ...
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