25 February 2026

The roads we talk down

Who would want to recreate the Earth,
    When we already have such a joyous one to explore?
Why pretend you've built it all since birth
    When you can marvel in everything that's gone before?

What infrastructure, in road and rail
    To allow us passage to places we've never seen?
 Without it we'd be telling a sorry tale
    In fact, would we ever be able to say what we mean?

See I've travelled the dictionary highways
    Venturing boldly through linguistic lanes
Merging to dialects and dark alleyways
    To find the most delicate refrains

What joy, when navigating old texts
    To find a snicket phrase not often tread
Or to see ley lines of convenience forming next
     To slang that will one day be formally bred

To be self-made would surely be miserable
    Rejoice in those that helped tamed the absurd!
There is a wilderness of syllables
    And danger in an unmapped word

In fact, for those with patience to see it through
    I would venture a path that made seem perverse 
Rather than build your own language structure anew
    Build on ours, and lay down a verse



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