Garrulous [gar-uh-luhs]
“Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk”
I awoke with my mind repeating the word like a mantra.
Garrulous. Gar-uh-luhs.
This was no microscopic examination of different aspects of a multi-faceted jewel—it was merely a hamster-thought spinning the wheel in repetition.
No morning coffee yet—to pull open the blinds and let some meaning shine in — and the small amount of consciousness which was present was merely a big cottony tongue exploring the word like some new dental work. Echos in an empty morning skull.
It had been weeks since the last time this type of lyric ear-worm had burrowed into my brain.
It was while heading downtown on the subway that the previous bout of word-echo had snuck into my grey matter. Suddenly my book reading was distracted — and the incantation began: sobriquet.
The syllables seemed to metronome time to the subway rattle on the tracks. So-brih-kay . . . So-brih-kay . . . So-brih-kay.
Going into the movie theater I was aware the word was still continuing to tumble—sobriquet—but emerging from the film, after some drama and a few laughs, it had dissipated.
