So, I have this thing where I'll randomly hear a word, a word I've heard a million and a half times before, but for some reason this one time is different. It's like I really hear it, like I was incapable of doing so before because I had wool in my ears.
So I hear this word and I fall madly, voraciously in love with it and I can't stop thinking of it or saying it just so I can feel its delicious sound across my tongue like that first time, the first time I fell in love with it, so I can fall in love again.
I roll it around in my brain with different intonations and accents and don't stop until it stops sounding like a word and lose all meaning but then I still hear the echo of it in the deepest corners of my brain.
It's like what normal people do with other humans of their affection.
This week or month or year or however long it'll be, that word is "perdition."
According to dictionary.com:
per-di-tion
[per-dish-uhn]
-noun
1. a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation
2. the future state of the wicked
3. hell
4. utter destruction or ruin
I don't know what it is about this word that has my stomach up in knots, but, whatever it is, I love it.
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