the linguistical grammarian

time flies like an arrow

fruit flies like a banana

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linguistic spins of random fate

words webbing

capturing

a reader’s imagination

mimicking real life

absurdities that make sense

when they don’t

but they do

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linguistics

study of language

patron saint of the writer

freeform agent of the underground

undercutting the grammar police

prescriptivists

who sound the alarm for

every dangling modifier

or

faulty subject verb agreement

or

lack of parallelism

in a world gone fractal

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colorless green ideas . . .

yes, they do sleep furiously

thank you, Noam Chomsky

hero of the free pen

in the ways of descriptive language

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yes, I know what you mean

but you used a comma before

a dependent clause

fie and shame

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defiant words

that challenge the rules

chased into corners

like mice in a granary

red pens scribbling

clubbing creativity

with a glee that conjugates brutality

to the creative hand

that pens the words

that live

beyond

in the land down wonder