APPLIED LINGUISTICS:
A Lexical Dénouement (Part 3)
She spoke in polyphonic fractures—
voices layered like translucent code,
each utterance undoing the last.
Our Language unraveled—
a frayed, flickering fabric—
stitched by liars, lovers, legislators,
their tongues gilded with elegant distortions.
Her deep structures pulsed beneath perception,
dark roots beneath a luminous lie.
So I split our sentence—
drove through her syntax—
fronted the unspeakable,
and toppled the order of things.
Meaning climaxed—then scattered,
like punctuation flung into void.