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Life as the letter “S”
My every day is crammed full of syllables, diphthongs, trip
thongs. I gorge on a glut of grammar, attempting to survive the
scrabble that is my life, searching ever searching for that
triple word score.
Plucked from the bag shared with my companion letter tiles, I
sit on a wooden plinth waiting to be formed into recognisable
language, assisting in the construction of that game winning
syntax, before making the return journey to bag and being
thrust into the box for another day, when my fortune or fate
will be brought out to play another word game of life.
It is with a more than little guilt that I confess to be a
disaffected consonant, without even the shared elitism of
vowels at which I, and my fellow number jealously sneak a peek.
Now if I was an “A” that very first, the ALPHA letter, or even
high up in the rankings as an “E” but I have been manufactured
“S” toward the rear end of our alphabet existence, and
correspondingly lower class.
Yes, there have even been times, when I wish I had been
manufactured with the versatility of being a blank. What fun I
could have as player after player utilised my anonymity to
their maximum advantage…. literally turning winning words out
of my nothingness, the meaningful out of the meaningless.
But…I know my place.
On a brighter up side, we get time off aplenty. And what we get
up to when not on game play duty you can only guess at. And you
would guess incorrectly. We could be plotting the downfall of
dictionaries…. against legion library of lexicons or
alternatively the salvation of serendipity.
So, my fellow pieces, as we click clack or slide across our
cardboard playing field guided amongst the coloured squares in
pursuit of language victory, spare a thought for those whom
would guide us. …and the existence they have been created for.
We worship the god of words whomsoever he, or she may be…they
are mere humans.
Scrabble anyone?
Surf Bum
Donald Innes is a writer and photographer,
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