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The Two Sides of the Name

September 29, 2013
By Zesty_Taco GOLD, Towson, Maryland
Zesty_Taco GOLD, Towson, Maryland
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Favorite Quote:
"Ancora Imparo" "I am still learning." -Michelangelo


A name is unnecessary.
A name can ruin its bearer.
A name can be overused.
Like John or Sarah.

A person’s name can ruin reputation.
It can cause a rift in a friendship,
A break in familial relations
Superficiality is the name of the game.

A person’s name can be clumsy,
Or cumbersome
Or it can taste like bile
Upon the tongue of the speaker.

A poem’s name can burden,
Or deliver a false impression.
It can deceive and dissuade
And make out a poem to be what it is not.

Names give words to the unmentionable,
But also to the unthinkable,
The theories and the ideas
One might now think that names aren’t as bad

As they are made out to be.


The author's comments:
Names. We all have one.

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