"contranym" poems
"i hate it when people candy-coat death. they use words like ‘lost, passed, departed, left.’ you know. ‘we’ve lost her. she passed on. she’s departed now. she left us.’
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did you know that the world ‘left’ is a contranym? it has two meanings that are exactly different from each other. it means both ‘to leave’ and ‘what remains.’
nothing remains, marley. my mom is dead.
nothing remains.”
Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 12:10 AM UTC