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TAKE ME BACK.
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It is awkward for me and bewildering for him
as I hold him in my arms in the small bathroom,
balancing our weight on the shaky blue scale,
but this is the way to weigh a dog and easier
than training him to sit obediently on one spot
with his tongue out, waiting for a cookie.
With a pencil and paper I subtract my weight
from our total to find out the remainder that is his
and I start to wonder if there is an analogy here.
It could not have to do with my leaving you
though I never figured out what you amounted to
until I subtracted myself from our combination.
You held me in your arms more than I held you
through all those awkward and bewildering months
and now we are both lost in strange and distant neighborhoods.
— Billy Collins
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Nonplus
A friend of mine posted a “top ten grammar pet peeve” list. One of the entries said that “nonplus does not mean what you think it means.”
Well, I didn’t know what it meant. But it certainly wasn’t what its etymology suggested, to exclude or omit, according to this post.
So like a classy mofo, I looked it up.
non●plus |nänˈpləs|
verb (-plussed, -plussing) [ trans. ] (usu. to be nonplussed)To surprise and confuse (someone) so much that they are unsure how to react.
I literally laughed. Because even when ignorant, dictionary-less people use it, it still sounds awful. You look at it first and think, “no more.” The word is telling you. No more. Don’t try, you know everything about me at first glance. I am “no more.” And even though I’m a walking warning sign, a blatant deterrent, you try to get closer. Like a smart ass, you look me up. You look into me. And now that you’re delving deeper than first glances, you know I can’t say what I’m trying to, or what I mean, or what I want, or what I’m really feeling. You ignore the obvious, you avoid the fact that I am pushing you away. And no, you don’t hear what you want to hear from me, but you can’t hear much of anything. I don’t have an answer for you because I just don’t understand what it is you are telling me.
