Dictionary

meaning, meaning what?
let me consult the atlas
I mean encyclopedia
or what is that thing called?
run through the alphabet
one combination at a time
lend me both hands
ink, wood, paper, you know,
perhaps all these pronunciation
keys will open doors to
parts of speech hitherto
underutilized, characters in
the hero's protagony
or is that one in there?
I don't remember where
to look, too close to the
ending, but does that imply
the A's at the beginning
have some bearing on 
the failures tomorrow?
it must depend on
whose word we're taking
for that fact, I mean definition