The teacher strays off
about the arts, useless
at first and afterwards
there is a use
With everything it has gone
like that, with language
it is repeated
at every birth
Babies try
to link
our sweet words
and motherese
to what is happening and thus
to come from provisional
to definite meanings
Step by step it gets useful
to talk to each other
even as a stranger
to the strangers
you don't understand
Poem 1663 Amsterdam, 2018-01-24 From Bacteria to Bach and Back: the Evolution of Minds (Daniel Dennett) Book Collection:Metamorphic body Keyword:Language Tribute to:Dennett, Daniel