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                        More Than a Container for Words

               The book was so much more than  
             a container for words inscribed on pages

                                 -David Rundle

A container for words; there’s something in that
For if it contains words, it contains dreams
Your portable dreams, your vade mecum
In code, waiting to be interpreted

A container for words, humming with life
With verbs wanting to pour out all the nouns
And fling the adjectives in front of them
With conjunctions and adverbs (only a few)

A container for words, a book, your book
Which you began writing when you were born

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