The Problem

The problem
With words — important words —
The most important words
Is this

Their referent
Is so thoroughly diffused
Displaced, misplaced
Ill-conceived

That to use any
Of the important words —
One is tasked first
To disentangle
Disabuse

The word —
From all the infusions
Accretions, smearing —
That the centuries, millennia
Of misinformed handling
Has made
That word to mean —
To refer to

Silence —
Is one way out
To be spared
From endless, futile speech
Disentangling
The word

Another —
Redefining, in one go
All words — important and ordinary —
To be but

Barking

Being disabused of —
Rather than disabusing
The word

Knowing
That being — disabused, or not —
Is itself
The word