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I am in a relationship

Conjunction:

a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, sentences

 

- the act of conjoining; combination; the state of being conjoined; union; association:

 

- a compound proposition that is true if and only if all of its component propositions are true.

 

- the coincidence of two or more heavenly bodies at the same celestial longitude.

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I am in a relationship.

 

a colorless word

a word of no clarity

a good one? a bad one?

a professional deal,

or one that makes you squeal

with pleasure or despair

 

without context or content,

a description of a status,

not a state,

but a quid pro quo

 

I prefer

I am in a conjunction

 

*well recall the day

our orbits

more than crossed,

but synchronized,

when two bodies

began to travel

upon the same longitude

one direction

in conjunction

 

t'was the day we coordinated

on our mobile phone,

co-configured our future,

our calendars*

 

*nowadays,

I answer her questions

while she is commencing to think,

when her foolishness prevails,

she questions, "did you remember to..."

my answer, a question returned,

connected, constant and conjunctive,*

"and what's my name?"

an answer conveying constancy

 

*relationship

oft the farthest place from logical,

but you know that,

say I am in a conjunction

and the logicians will celebrate

the end of your lonely celibacy,

well they understand the truth

inherent in and of and about

your compounded proposition*

 

*what unimaginative creatures we be,

dispensing with beauty for factuality,

but facts are easily misread,

your fact and my fact, relationship,

the exact same fact, conveys neither

an agreement as to what that means

 

are we unionized, associated, or conjoined

what is the quality of

our related ships?*

 

so

Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,

amend my status please,

post me

as being in a state of:

a) conductivity b) connectivity c) concoctive

no, none of those

capture

what we have

captured,

so let create a new state,

a new world,

using a very old world word

post us as follows,

"Nat is in a conjunction"

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nat-lipstadt
99 / M / NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
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Apr 25, 2014
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