Traceless
Some Words Stay, Some Don't
Sometimes language is sticky.
Words, spoken or thought, remain.
Replayed, rehashed, reacted, redone.
Not so much in the room
as in the body.
Checking.
Holding.
Checking again.
Why do words that come
not go?
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Other words pass right through.
Not slippery, just nothing to grab them.
Said, and no
again.
Not forgotten—
just not carried any further.
Who, then, would do the holding?
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