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Jan 2015
Scanning the language
To make sense
Of two different worlds
Propose
The interpretation
For one party
It translates
For the other
It is lost

The spirit it catches you
The interpreter desperately relays the message
But it does not translate
It has caught you
You are falling down
Yet no one seems to understand the message
Throwing pebbles
At a brick wall
Even when translated
To a familiar language
Those hardened in their ways
Fail to comprehend the meaning
In response to the Book Poem Challenge
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/1019852/book-poem-challenge/

The book is titled "The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman.

#bookpoemchallenge
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