36,500 Words.

"The vocabulary is great but there's not much to the plot" ha ha corny old joke/
It's actually the other way around innit/
Words when united shimmy and shake but alone they just sit there waiting to dance/
But I can conjure a plot out of reference books that'd make Harold Bloom shit a brick/
Me, as a kid, alone with dictionaries and rhyming dictionaries and thesauri/
Constructing worlds out of pure word association/
Begetting hundreds and thousands of stories out of thin paper/
Nothing sadder or more wonderful than the young abecedarian /
Dammit I want to be him again/