Atticus I just found out about houseboats what is a do way that last one was confusing because he pronounced the word duet as if he were speaking French do a dad Sterling asked one Sunday afternoon out of the blue What s a shit of how is a ship of you. I love watching Sterling as he comes into contact with the world through words it pleases me to see him puzzling over and parsing his thoughts and experiences in this way I think of the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass who showed us in his autobiography narrative of the life that language is a source not only of immense insight and pleasure but also a key to freedom today s poem is a sale as sale. Ass by Dora Malik n.h. Line of the poem a statement is made and then the very same letters are reconfigured so that something else can be said post becomes stop claims curse becomes claims cures reading the poem aloud I feel a little like one of the witches and Macbeth who speaks nonsense and ends up making sense yes words allow us to sa