Nov 2023
A victim of Lethologica,
I find myself ransacking my brain
For common everyday words I need.
Do I seem a fool or dementia patient?
I am neither of those - not yet anyway.
But my bumbling efforts to be succinct
Fall by the wayside as I stare into space,
Hoping that the word I desperately need
Is somehow magically floating there,
And stammering red faced when it is not.
The only thing that keeps me sane
Is my vast storehouse of synonyms
That I dig out to fill in for the better word
My frantic ransack did not uncover.
ljm
I find myself ransacking my brain
For common everyday words I need.
Do I seem a fool or dementia patient?
I am neither of those - not yet anyway.
But my bumbling efforts to be succinct
Fall by the wayside as I stare into space,
Hoping that the word I desperately need
Is somehow magically floating there,
And stammering red faced when it is not.
The only thing that keeps me sane
Is my vast storehouse of synonyms
That I dig out to fill in for the better word
My frantic ransack did not uncover.
ljm
In hopes BLT will forgive me for not giving him proper credit in my spotlight interview, here is a new entry in the Merriam Webster word of the Day game. And I may have encouraged a new recruit to play. We'll see.
