Stentorian: here's a thing I know
(When a voice is big and booming) So
How came I by this knowledge? Show
Me where and when it came to grow.
Was it in a book I read and read
Until the phrase grooved in my head
And though I'd never heard it said
Or looked it up, it stayed. Or did
It filter in from magazines
A Reader's Digest, or Seventeen,
Or from the paper, smudging ink,
Or a cut-out pinned by the kitchen sink?
Words on words erumpent burst
From screens and passersby; at first
They flow and fill some inner thirst
And lie, dormant, for better or worse
Until circumstance calls one word
The setting right, it must be heard
Vocabulary blooming, thick and fast
With words that stay, and stick, and last.
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