“Sticks and stones may break my bones

            but words will never hurt me,”

and I call bullshit

to whomever spouted such folly,

            to the one who thought

they were oh so wise when they spoke

that their sayings should be copied down

and passed

from generation to generation;

a legend of idiocy

from which this idea spread, like poison,

that those who are hurt by words

            are weak

But they were wrong

because words—

           words are chaos.