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Carl Sandburg - Monosyllabic
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Let me be monosyllabic to-day, O Lord. 
Yesterday I loosed a snarl of words on a fool, on a child. 
To-day, let me be monosyllabic . . . . a crony of old men who wash sunlight in their fingers and enjoy slow-pacing clocks.
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