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Exploring Grammar (why I love the English language)

It all begins

With pronouns

I becomes the subject

Of my project

Adding you

And collectively we

I choose you and me

And I exclude the he and the she

Until I am certain of we

 

You and I pick verbs

actions

 

Inflect them to match

fit

begin narratives

 

Transitive verbs take objects

 

You touch

tickle

tease

taste

take skin

*******

lips

me with words

 

Words have become a clause

But still a simple construction

So, you tickle me where?

 

For this you need a preposition

To position your tickling ammunition

Do you touch

tickle

tease me ON my *******

*******

thighs

buttocks

****

 

Do you feel me INSIDE my mouth

****

soul?

Positioning is envisioning.

 

Then you use adjectives

To modify descriptions of

Sensory inscriptions

So, gentle complements touch

Soft and passionate kiss

And you become superlative

 

And adverbs elaborate experience

expression

exploration

 

You fill me deeply

thoroughly

violently with all that is you

 

But adverbs can also mean time

Not sweet or cursed time

Or time denoting age

But timing is always important

And grammar dictates

That

Time adverbs are placed

As a beginning or an end

Like a lover's embrace

 

Thus,

This morning, you woke me with

A demanding "here and now! " and I will reciprocate this, tonight, I vow.

 

Conjunctions are sentence connectors

And sentences behave like detectors

Bodies balancing with and, but, or

Otherwise subordinate

And the scale tips towards

Conditioning hypotaxis

Making actions a complicated praxis

 

(before my mind can connect, you will have to pursuade it /pursue it)

 

But we coordinate conjunctions

Equally

I touch you

You touch me

Exploring

Exploding sensory functions

 

So, together we cry imperatives

Completing our ****** narratives

 

Moaning

Whimpering

Begging

Yelling: Please... bind me!

touch me!

bite me!

take me!

come!

 

Oh! Please, come!

 

I love the English language... ;)

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