The impeachment inquiry hearings going on this week have been a reminder that many of us are using different words – including some Latin ones – than we have in the past. That was the inspiration for this Typewriter Rodeo poem.
The New Vocabulary
All these new words on the news
That you now need to know
Like impeachment proceedings
And quid pro quo
I remember the day
When words were leaner, fitter
When we didn’t have to worry
About government by Twitter
When each day didn’t bring
Brand new confusion
When we didn’t have to keep asking
Wait — what IS collusion?
When our maps didn’t change
By a stray Sharpie squiggly
When not everything was HUUUUGE
The very best, bigly
Yup, it’s hard to keep us
With all the wordage recently
I long for the days
Of good old fashioned, common decency.
Produced by Laura Rice.
