The Like

N. Sowers
Revellations
Published in
2 min readMay 21, 2019

Like,
The Like?
The like Like
& the he’s like she’s like Like.
Y’know, the Like of the like, filler Like?
Where like ur like not sure what the Like
you’d like to use is… Like
she was like “lol kill urself” & I’m like
“Kill me yourself!” but like
neither of us really said that. It’s the Like
of the approximate like.
Not to be confused with like-like
of “w8 do u like him or like LIKE LIKE
him?” fame. But like,
the Like gets a bad rap, cuz like
there’s a difference between the Like
& the like Like & all the rest alike.
Have you heard the like
where like there are “like 40 queen bees” who like,
drink pink drinks & show up to school looking like
a goddess who like
the rest of us DREAM we could look like.
But like?
there aren’t literally 40 queen bees who like
do that. It’s an approximate Like?
A Like that like doesn’t fully mean the like
literal likeness.
It’s not some lol so random XD text talk either! “Belike
for want of rain.” Some old dude wrote that & like
Anna Friel was like
“Belike for want of rain” in some movie. So it’s like
— 20 y/o at Least?

Photo by JJ Jordan on Unsplash

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N. Sowers
Revellations

UCSD Class of 2020 | English Literature Major in Revelle College | Words come from a Head, not a Hat