please tally
all the languages
in the world
sojourning linguists
at last count 7,117
are spoken
a ton
of different tongues
the # of poems
incalculable
my hypothesis
to formulate
our thoughts
we grind & encase
our notions
like sausage inside
the skins of words
& inside
the skin of a poem
meaty &/or
plant based
words return
to thoughts unground
