It's Like…

Like

by Colin Vince

Like, I like
like.
You know,
the word,
like.
Like is such a simple, like,
word.
You know.
Like, it sounds so, like,
easy.
It's like, only one syllable.
What could be, like, easier?
It's like chocolate!
The more you have, like
the more you like
want.
So, I like,
use it,
like
as much as I, like,
can.

My parents don't,
like,
like me to use that word.
Like,
that really, like,
sucks.
But they don't, like, understand.
Like is how I,
like,
communicate.
Like, all my friends, like, they wouldn't understand
me,
like.
How could I, like, not talk to my friends?
Like,
that would, like,
suck.

My English teacher, like,
he doesn't like,
want me to use like,
either.
What am I, like, to use?
There aren't like any other four letter words
like,
that I can, like use.
He doesn't like,
understand.
He like, tells me to like,
speak english.
What does he, like,
think
like is?
Like,
Russian?

Like is just
like sweeet,
like really,
like sweeet!
Four letters,
one syllable
Like how could you like,
not like it?
My art teacher, like she doesn't like
us to use like.
Especially in, like crits.
But like, me and like,
my friends
we like,
forget.
Everybody laughs when someone, like forgets and
says
like,
I like,
that art.
Like,
what's the big deal,
like?
I like,
what I like.

I think like, adults like, don't like
to use like
because,
like, maybe they don't know, like, how to speak,
like,
English.
I'll have to like, keep trying
to,
like, reform them.
But, like, it could,
like,
take a long,
long,
time.
Like.