Ten Dollar Word
infrangible
is an excellent word
the mouse that hops about my head
at three a.m. is
infrangible
he steals the cheese straight
off the trap
and covets it between my boots
in the shoe room
my green steel-toed boots are
infrangible
i like to stomp in them to school
and stop to pick worms out of puddles
swollen and white
but, all the same,
infrangible
even in fractions
according to the scientists
infrangible
behind their lab jackets and
long Latin words
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