Jeff
Every word has a meaning
Some words have many meanings
And some meanings belong to many words
Names are special kinds of words
That have to wait to acquire a meaning
There are four Jeffs in my fantasy football group
Each Jeff signifies something unique
None of us ever says the word Jeff
We call each other by our last names
When we gather, the word Jeff is meaningless
Jeff is now the 2394th most popular name
Chosen by new American parents for their babies
Someday the word Jeff will replace the word Herbert
In the dictionary of lost languages
Its entry will read: synonym for Randy
One by one there will be no more Jeffs
Each time a Jeff dies
A verb becomes a noun
Pronunciation gets codified
And empty spaces fills with pure definition
When the last of us in the group is gone
Jeff becomes a word you may forget.
Yes, you may come across it again in your readings
But if you get stuck, just look it up.
We're all hoping it gets written down in the book.
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