Thursday, December 14, 2006

Bad grammar


I went supine with a lupine and ended up with a kumquat in my pocket.

She went for the genitives with her sly missives and asked what I was made of.

Despite being prolix I fumbled the clitics, found myself face-down in a narrow ditch, woke up downtown to rain sounds.

Now I've got injuries on top of my penuries and a sore assonance as was happenstance to go with a kumquat in my pocket.

[Actual grammatical terms: supine, genitive, clitic, assonance. Lupa, the root of lupine, is also a fun word with double meanings. You can read more about it -- and see pictures -- here and here.]

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