Speeches, debates, promises, lies, advertisements, banners, posters, Twitter, Facebook, Watsapp messages, and this writing here—all are built with words, in words, from words.

The poet Subagio Sastrowardoyo wrote:

Asal mula adalah kata

Jagat tersusun dari kata

Di balik itu hanya

ruang kosong dan angin pagi

In the beginning was the word

The world is built from words

And behind it all

Is just emptiness and the morning br