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Slapdash
Merriam-Webster Word of the Day, February 16, 2022
The opposite, in other words,
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Of the little peasant girl suturing petals
Back into the heart of a flower as the dawn breaks; it is more
Like the watery egg dawn breaks like; it is more the hot breath
Flapping against “sands of the desert” but which no one observes,
And yet, sweating into his sheets, a man in nighttime Oslo
Wakes suddenly, thinking of it.
Still Dryden knew it best: “Down I put
the Notes slap-dash,” as though velocity were the chief
Motion in question, not the friction of the written against the sound which
Hardly needs a source to be heard.
