Onomatomania by Thomas Lux    the word for the inability to find the right word, leads me to self-diagnose: onomatomaniac. It's not the 20 volume OED, I need, nor Dr. Roget's book, which offers equals only, never discovery. I accept the fallibility of language, its spastic elasticity, its jake-leg, as well as prima ballerina, dances. I accept that language can be manipulated towards deceit (ex.: The Mahatmapropaganda, i.e., Goebbels); I accept, and mourn, though not a lot, the loss of the dash/semi-colon pair. It's the sound of a pause unlike no other pause. And when the words are tedious and tedious also their order--sew me up in a rug and toss me in the sea! Language is dying, the novel is dying, poetry is a corpse colder than the Ice Man, they've all been dying for thousands of years, yet people still write, people still read, and everyone knows that nothing is really real until it is written. Until it is written! Even those who cannot read know that. Copyright © 2014 by Thomas Lux. "I was annoyed by one of the  occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion."  from Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, 2-7-2014