Brian Turner
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And I've yet to get it into a poem.
Can you tell us what it is?
Chal.
I have something called Chal to the Grit.
Chaw, C-H-A-W-L.
I used to be a machinist, and it just seems like the right word for when metal and a tool bit comes up against metal, but it sort of stutters across it.
Yes.
Like Chaw's at the bit.
Great.
But I tried to use that in a poem, and the editor said, you can't just have a made-up word.
Why not?
There needs to be a word for that.
Yes, yes.
Right.
So I'd like to add one to the dictionary, just one.
The Scottish word makar or maker, the idea of making.
Yeah.
Yeah, we should be involved in that process.
Well, a hack bass player, yeah.
But yeah, I think for me it's very healthy because I have something to lean on when... sort of shift gears between one or the other.