“Verbal Load Management”

by Steve Matoren/buttsintheseats@yahoo.com

As a writer, I’m nothing, if not a wordsmith.

An illustrious pontificator of language and linguistics.

A selective spewer of the lexicon.

Yes, Mr. President, words matter.

I appreciate word precision, structure and syntax…

The clever charm of a witty pun,

The slick turn of a phrase,

The smart nuance of the double-entendre.

I’m stimulated by limericks, rhymes and haiku’s.

I love alliteration as much as titillation.

Writers enhance communication through hyperbole and diminish it with understated sarcasm. To the writer, word play is a form of foreplay.

I loathe improper placement and sentence composition, except in the case of Yoda.

Cliches are the enemy, the OG sin of diction. (“OG” is gangsta’ short for “original.” And “Diction”- well, there’s a funny sounding word. The best sounding words carefully orchestrated together result in a beautiful literary cacophony. You know what’s not so funny…