Syntactically Attached
I am like a word or a 'lil chunk of phrases.
a balderdash of mere irrelevant symbols,
a lexical unit far removed from its syntactical web;
And my grammatical sense, I find, only
within the thread of your helical sentence.
I might be a subjective noun,
'Proper' am I at times,
Yet 'common' and generic in its semantic nuance.
Ehr, myself is a lousy term and a barren word, indeed!;
am only good and alive when flavored with your honeyed adjective.
Other times, I imagine myself a verb
and you the beautiful subject.
I can be very mood-y and tense-d
Yet I promise to 'agree' with you, by all means.
Know that my subjunctives, imperatives & indicatives are you;
Your 'facts,' 'desires,' and 'oughts'
are essentially inflected within the grammatical fabric of my moods.
For we are, in a word, "grammatically intertwined"
By commas, our discrete phrases are divided,
yet our fragmentary clauses are meaningfully united. . .
Our modifiers can dangle and flout
But they are reconciled
in the language games of our love.
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