A satirical sonnet about small talk and big words


OF DEFINITIONS REDEFINED

As chitchat swirls like a newborn rain cloud,
I sit beneath an umbrella mushroom
which, with its large mouth, saves me from the crowd.
I escape with my sanity...or so I assume.

For what, indeed, defines this hard-sought trait?
Can it be a vilipenditory vocabulary?
Some who, through logolepsy, define love and hate?
Again, I avoid this fatality...

For words twisted will twist minds,
incurring the evanesce of our very definitions.
However, a break in the monotonous chatter often finds:
a breath of fresh enlightenment. New depictions.
Or--

A new sense of rule breaking.
In risk-taking.

In being alive.

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vilipenditory: disparaging, belittling
logolepsy: obsession with words
evanesce: to disappear gradually