The Indispensable Tool

 

My old thesaurus is the writer's gold.

Instead of speaking, we articulate.

We welcome antiquated over old.

Rejecting something? Try repudiate.

The words are nice, the words are eloquent,

and there's so many -- there's a panoply

of options, innocent to decadent,

the words of God (with some hyperbole).

 

The writer, furthermore, is gratified

to share the history and mystery

of rare and poignant words. The writer's pride

is deftly engineered synonymy.

 

But if the words are strange, the writer's fate

is take thesaurus and absquatulate.