The 'Bestest'
The "bestest" is the "best" when it becomes even better.
A term discovered by some small kids who invent their own words and letters.
Even as an adult, I considered it the top of the line
And it describes my exact feelings about the "best" just fine.
Sometimes our dictionary doesn't have a word to adequately describe the "n"th degree
Of the only word we know so if we're innovative like a child, we
Will invent a word so obviously fitting for the description
Which works like a ready-made-for-use prescription.
When you shock your "correct" friends with this "bestest" word
You'll simply introduce your own version, they've never, ever heard.
It fills the bill that Webster somehow overlooked.
I feel that it should have already graced the pages of that book.
Lucile I. Burke
December 17, 1995
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