Voices

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Voices

Everyone is again speaking at once
making it impossible to know which voice
is yours. Piled together,

a gigantic game of pick-up sticks,
and I have to slide yours out without
all the rest crashing in on me,

burying me in
conventional wisdom,
more than enough for a

conventional wisdom convention.
Maybe if you marked yours somehow,
or kept it out of the pile

and delivered it separately, stealthily,
so no one else could hear.
A secret code maybe, tapped out

in the footsteps of the strangers,
or the beats of your streetdrummers,
revealed in the timbre of your rain,

I might be able to put it all down,
crack it in the solitude of the night,
access the confidential classfied skinny:

what wine to serve with dinner,
when to use ‘whom,’
how to lose these pounds,

how to lose this heart.

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This voice rains right through the conventional wisdom convention. When the heart speaks, all other sounds fall silent even amid the clash of swords and battlecries.

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When to use whom is easy.

It’s usage emphasizes a relationship of some kind between the two subjects in a sentence. A type of relative clause.

For example:

“He’s the man to whom I gave the package.”

vs.

“He’s the man I gave the package to.”

Notice the switch in position of the preposition ‘to’.

It’s also used with ‘with’.

“He’s the guy with whom I play tennis on Tuesdays.”

vs.

“He’s the guy I play tennis with on Tuesdays.”

Again, the preposition moves. The preposition placement is key, if it comes directly after the first subject named, then whom always follows.

Aside from that, nice poem. :wink:

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Tab: :laughing:

Yes, yes. I really like this.

5

Nice.