She said there is no such word
as Adulting
and I said there is no such word
as anything
until someone says it.

Words exist
because of speakers..
Speakers use words
to communicate.
If the words communicate
how are they not words?

There are books that tell us the words,
she reminded me,
they are called dictionaries.
Those are words that have existed,
I replied,
what about the new ones?

What about Drumpfed
and Revirginalized
or Inglitian
or Adulted
or Tantronic?

She asked me what tantronic meant
and I said
I don’t know!
But you kinda got the others, didn’t you?

She didn’t have anything to say to that
but then
she didn’t have anything
to say to any of it
because I did not say it to her
with words
and so
we failed to communicate.