Isn’t the English language at times funny?
For one word can have meanings too many.
For example, take the word ‘cell’.
With this single word ‘cell’-
what you precisely mean,
you can never tell.
A cell is the microscopic unit of life in biology
or it could be a chemical device to produce electrical energy.
It could refer to a place where a prisoner is confined
or it could denote an area of a spreadsheet defined.
It may mean a very small room in a monastery
or a little compartment of a honey comb on a tree.
Of late everything seems pell-mell with the word ‘cell’-
for its ring-tone has another interesting story to tell.
So when you just say ‘cell’
what it means we can hardly tell -
unless we know the context
or wait till what comes next.
28 June 2010
9: 45 am
Gita Ashok
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cell-3/
