Words repeat because they are irresistible.
There are bounties and boundings,
Perimeters and wishes.
Last count most of all
Are the kisses.
This is because of the crack and hiss in it, the word:
Spoken, to say nothing of its meaning, it
Echoes--a stone thrown, skipping in a cave.
On one wall it cracks, then misses,
Cracks then misses.
Silence enuses and the stone, or its absence
Hisses.
This, I suspect, is why kisses the word and kisses the
Kisses repeats
and all end in esses.
The Monkey
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