CWU Manastash - Vol 23

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The Cruel Language Stefan Milne Sometimes I have a speech impediment, which is—it’s a hard word to say if you have one. Zach Galifinakis

The body, often, is a skittering, jittering mess, subject not only to the conditions of conditions, but also to scarlet fevered projections of the mind. Some days my dictionary is all daggers, not just the motherfuckers and cocksuckers, the vitriol and spleen, but even the shiv lisp sticks lispers with: in a better world, a better word, we say lithp. The names of things sing their nature, their often ugly

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