Nondescript

Nondescript

By Florence Lee

They creep up on you,
innocuous—
just there, sprinkled in
between
the multi-syllabic,
the grandiose,
the highfalutin.
ever nondescript,
holding their place,
being content with
being ignored

Underappreciated,
they’re
nobody's favourite,
just
quietly, diligently
doing what they are
supposed to —
glueing, piecing, stacking.

Give me one of these
unremarkable hard workers
I love these
little words
that hold our world together.