What shows
how little
we know?
What can be is
oft far less than
what we expect.
What is now
has never been
what it was.
07/25/2024 j.g.l.
dialects accents
enunciation
vocal inflections
we speak
one language or another
our mother tongue
among others
we understand
what we can
we listen we read
meaning into messages
communication
takes effort how can I explain?
we criticize another human’s
broken english
not considering the words
are foreign and she or he
or they
speak another language
naturally
where I speak only one language
I cannot fully understand
any of the others
they are foreign
to me
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