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THY/THEE/THOU/THINE/DOST/DOTH/MINE/'ST/'OUS
someone by the name of Ken grabbed me by my throat
one day
and burned me with a cigarette,
(right on my pretty little forehead)
told me to SPEAK ENGLISH, DAMMIT!
because they would never say "thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous"
in Detroit
and we live in the 21st century
so no one says such things anymore
unless they want to be archaic
perhaps Ken had a point:
maybe i have outgrown thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous,
perhaps the world has outgrown thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
and just maybe no one wants to remember when they were called thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
remember when you were called thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous?
remember when you were compared to flowers and summer's days?
remember when you were treated as a queen because you were in the light of one's heart?
remember when the poems of the world made it so that
the nonpoems of the world seemed like nothings
if only for fourteen lines orso?
why take us back to those days? some will ask me
why, my good friends, the chance to remember when i could have been a man -
believe it or not an apple is still an apple if you call it something more splendid -
if thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous are too old
then maybe i am an old soul
but i can't be old because i am young
too young
twenty-1 (like our century)
to remember those days
but i would like to live?
remember when we were young and we pretended to be kings
and queens and knights and damsels?
sometimes i just never grow up -
sometimes i just speak as such because i wish to save someone
(not with a sword but with some poetry)
we were taught that thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous are only used
when slipping into love with our tongues
but remember LOVE?
i write for LOVE
so if i write for LOVE why not speak of LOVE?
in days of old LOVE meant thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
in days of today, in days of this boy,
who still dreams
to save
and woo
love still means thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
(sometimes)
one day
and burned me with a cigarette,
(right on my pretty little forehead)
told me to SPEAK ENGLISH, DAMMIT!
because they would never say "thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous"
in Detroit
and we live in the 21st century
so no one says such things anymore
unless they want to be archaic
perhaps Ken had a point:
maybe i have outgrown thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous,
perhaps the world has outgrown thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
and just maybe no one wants to remember when they were called thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
remember when you were called thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous?
remember when you were compared to flowers and summer's days?
remember when you were treated as a queen because you were in the light of one's heart?
remember when the poems of the world made it so that
the nonpoems of the world seemed like nothings
if only for fourteen lines orso?
why take us back to those days? some will ask me
why, my good friends, the chance to remember when i could have been a man -
believe it or not an apple is still an apple if you call it something more splendid -
if thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous are too old
then maybe i am an old soul
but i can't be old because i am young
too young
twenty-1 (like our century)
to remember those days
but i would like to live?
remember when we were young and we pretended to be kings
and queens and knights and damsels?
sometimes i just never grow up -
sometimes i just speak as such because i wish to save someone
(not with a sword but with some poetry)
we were taught that thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous are only used
when slipping into love with our tongues
but remember LOVE?
i write for LOVE
so if i write for LOVE why not speak of LOVE?
in days of old LOVE meant thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
in days of today, in days of this boy,
who still dreams
to save
and woo
love still means thy/thee/thou/thine/dost/doth/mine/'st/'ous
(sometimes)
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