According to the Encyclopedia, the mouth is the beginning of the gastrointestinal tract, the first stage in a complex arrangement of soft muscles and tissues, pushing and shoving food. The mouth is the beginning of many things. The lungs find their breath. The larynx finds the transformation of sound to words. Language begins in the mouth; it’s pushed and shoved by his words, her words, our words, pushed through the tract of humanity and ends in bullshit. |