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title: 'failing words'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/failing-words'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/failing-words.md'
date: '1996-01-01'
description: 'failing words sadly call through my hand onto the page. they sigh… they breathe their way around the white and blueness of the paper. they long to live through the lips that lusciously long to linger overletter after letter after letter after….'
taxonomy:
  category:
    - Journal
  tag:
    - poetry
---

# failing words

## [failing words](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/failing-words)

    1st Jan 1996   [poetry](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:poetry#body-wrapper)  

failing words sadly call through my hand onto the page.

they sigh…

they breathe their way around the white and blueness of the paper.

they long to live through the lips that lusciously long to linger overletter after letter after letter after….

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