Alphabet Soup

In the large chasm between mundane colloquialism and grandiloquence is a misplaced (for the benefit of the doubt) appreciation for the use of words; an appreciation of the same token by which we scrawl a line between a Dali and graffiti in discerning arts. Words like colors, shroud us ubiquitously as we have managed to strew both in all contexts. Yet in mimicry, diction with its palette of prepackaged letters proves to be far more difficult as it lacks the hues and nuances of colors. Nevertheless, however crude the outcome, it still manages to project intonations and connotations evoking a complete gamut of responses. A picture may in fact be a thousand words, but that is no reason to forego the literary challenge of painting with alphabet soup.