don't

i wish people would stop using that word i hear the same word everyday being said by strangers to strangers and being said to and about inanimate objects. i hear the word being said between a couple that is 15 years old and a couple that is 55 years old and neither mean it more or less than any other couple that has ever said the word. when the boy said it he wasn't sure he felt that word and the girl wasn't sure she knew what the word meant. and one person said it about the unusually warm weather and one person said it about a movie star they had never met and one person said it about the breakfast they had had the day before and one million people had it on their t shirt about a city they had never been to.


and so many people want it so many people want to hear it whispered in their ear and want to hear it shouted on a mountaintop for them. everyone wants that word but no one is getting the word and no one is getting that the word is just that and can't change a thing by being said or heard. how can that girl expect the word means something coming from the mouth of a boy that just used the word to talk about a sports game on television he only saw the last five minutes of. it is just one word. one word that has been said too much about nothing.