Ctrl-Alt-Delete the Dictionary
Daily writing prompt
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
I spill over the dictionary, wondering
what should go, what should be left out,
to never seen or heard from again,
how, I ask no one in particular, can I make the dictionary--
this massive, bloated, under-utilized piece of academic erudition--
great again?
make these words great again,
make them mean something, anything, yet again, again, and again,
and then it hits me, like an energy-efficient light bulb shattering into my skull,
luminescence forcefully making its way through the synapses in my head
until i finally know--i know what to do,
just three quick taps on the keyboard,
ctrl-alt-delete
the whole damn thing
that way I can start again,
with my own damn version of the dictionary, a great dictionary,
The Great Dictionary, I'll call it,
perhaps this time,
I'll finally be able to remember all the words in it,
but I also wouldn't hold my breath
Fred Aiken Writing 