Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord. <br />Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool, on a child. <br />To-day, let me be monosyllabic . . . . a crony of old men who wash sunlight in their fingers and enjoy slow-pacing clocks.<br /><br />Carl Sandburg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/monosyllabic/
