language musing

• Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. What do I want?
• The derivations of words, curious usages. I used to tease him about being pedantic.
• Smells fishy, they used to say; or I smell a rat. Misfit as odour
• Habits are hard to break
• They wore blouses with buttons down the front which suggested the possibilities of the word undone
• The difference between lie and lay. Lay is always passive. Even men used to say, I’d like to get laid
• Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it
• Yesterday morning I went to the doctor. Was taken
• The house is what he holds. To haveand to hold, till death do us part. The hold of a ship. Hollow.
• He’s only my flag. My semaphore. Body language.
• I get paid, you get laid, I rhyme in my head.