Unpopular Opinions on Thesauruses and Penises

The thesaurus is a good tool 
if you want to take words
and weaponize them

into the unruly, verbose swords
of academia, so long, you fumble
while you wield them,
 
or into high scoring bingos for Scrabble. 
It is like bragging that you have
the longest, most sophisticated penis.

But Scrabble experts know how to score
more points with just two well-placed
letters; good poets (and good lovers)
 
know the best way to romance a woman
is to leave the perfect image lingering
on her lips like a long, slow kiss.

Dictionary and phallic symbol. By the way, check out this awesome music video about Weird Al’s big dictionary! Photo by SteveTaint on FreeImages.

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Written for dVerse and EM-RWP