Seven Letters
(Lyrics by Jessica Stone/Music by Curtis Brengle)
My name has seven letters and I'm not in a hurry.
I dot my I's, I CAPITALIZE
And I will not be in a hurry.
I take my time, I think of rhymes
I still write on paper
With lines…
When I have new thoughts,
I write them down
I look down
At the ground
And I notice the ants as they scurry.
I listen for birds
I sing harmony in thirds
And I refuse to be in a hurry.
Once upon a time
People communicated
In a style that's now
Antiquated
I think email's overrated.
Whatever happened to saving people's letters
Reading them again
And liking them better
The second and third time around?
To finding a shoebox stuffed with history
In a closet behind your grandmother's wedding gown?
Unraveling the mystery of how your grandparents fell in love
And settled down?
Noticing your handwriting is just like
Your grandmother's
And understanding that genes mean much more than
Hair color
Even though it's too late to tell her now.
Write it down on paper
With lines this time
And mail it to your sister or brother
Or nephew or mother…
Write it in cursive
and let your thoughts be discursive
Use punctuation and capitalize
It'll mean much more than you realize.
In our world of acronyms and abbreviations
Of emails, facsimiles,
And chat room masturbations…
Can't you see we are heading for
A literary starvation?
Don't think before you type.
There's no justification needed.
No repercussion for thoughtlessness,
To save face
Just click
Erase.
But my name has seven letters
And I write them all every time.
I write poetry and songs
And I focus on each line.
I use colored pens
that won't fade so when
My granddaughter finds my shoebox
She'll find me
Preserved in rhyme.
And she'll know that my name had
Seven letters.
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