Zócalo Public SquareRhododendron – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Rhododendron https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/11/23/rhododendron/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/11/23/rhododendron/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:01:57 +0000 by Aaron Belz https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=42700 I spent an entire year refusing
to spell “rhododendron” correctly.
About six months in, I met a woman
who refused to spell “heinous” correctly.
Together we refused to spell “The
rhododendron is heinous” correctly.
This resulted in a torrid affair. But
I didn’t know how long she planned
to stick to her resolution, and when
I asked her we had our first fight.
Eventually she broke things off.
I don’t even know where she lives now.

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to spell “rhododendron” correctly.
About six months in, I met a woman
who refused to spell “heinous” correctly.
Together we refused to spell “The
rhododendron is heinous” correctly.
This resulted in a torrid affair. But
I didn’t know how long she planned
to stick to her resolution, and when
I asked her we had our first fight.
Eventually she broke things off.
I don’t even know where she lives now.

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