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There are so many ways
to define worn. I can
count them off for you;
one: showing affects of wear,
like a grandfatherly sofa, with a
red fringe the cat toys with.
Or, second: weakened and
frayed by use; like dollars sewn
together with seams of tape
in hopes of passing them off
as legitimate. Or three,
my personal favorite:
worn, hackneyed, to be used so
much as to have lost meaning,
cliché, a trite experiment in
permanence, a crumpled
bit of refuse under the cushion
of a couch, a bill falling
apart at the joints fabricated
from all the folding in and
out and in and just fading
like a pop culture phenomenon,
an idea that evokes hysteria
then dies out so quickly it
is as if the idea never
existed.