Excellent minimalist free verse Word Games : Word Games by estory

Let's say we were talking about something. Let's say we were talking about Something about what Someone thought we said When we said What we thought we were saying When we said something About what someone else said. About what we were talking about. What were we talking about? Were we talking about Talking about Talking About Talking about Talking about what We were talking about What we were talking about. What were we talking about? We were talking about something We said that we were saying When we said someone thought we said Something about someone who thought We were saying something About what someone else said We thought we were saying About what we thought we were saying When we said we thought We were saying something about What we said we were saying when we thought we said Something about something about something Author Notes This is another minimalist piece, in which the music of the language revolves around a few sounds, these 'w' 's' 't' and 'ing' sounds, repeating in different patterns and different rhythms throughout the piece. The poem unrolls in some parts, winds in on itself in others, and then explodes out into 'something' out there, an endless space and time that could go on forever, like an echo. I love this idea of poems bursting open like seeds, and then unfolding out, like kites, and then floating off into the sky, going beyond the reach of hand and eye, or in the case, ear. It could also be a comment on idle gossip, the meaningless repetitions of rumors and hearsay. I wanted it to be obtuse enough, abstract enough, to be different things to different people. estory

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