Thursday, January 15, 2009

"Who Cares?"


It was a rhetorical question she threw at me before walking away.
A gramatical sucker punch.
A curveball made of words.
A land mine of language.
Her bear trap diction

See here's the tricky thing about rhetorical questions:
They are, technically, questions, as they begin with a who or what and finish with an eroteme.
And yet at the same time they are not questions as they do not invoke a response.

Had this been the case I would have called after her, "I do!"

Rhetorical questions are broken sentences.
Like a record, playing the same three seconds of a song over and over agian.
A voice once so beautifully harmonic, now childish and wearing.
Instead of asking for information, they proudly announce it.
Her question of "who cares?", let me know, that she didn't.

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