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Prabhu Iyer
Poems
Feb 2015
Is, is
Dont talk to me about sense-vense -
do you, or do you not?
tell me this much;
Don't go zig-zag, jibber-jabber,
zither; look I don't care of
money-shoney,
this caste-vaste, mummy-daddy
and the society;
We could might never deny this,
pow-wows cannot measure this,
do you, or do you not?
That is, is all there is.
The Indian girl is talking sense into her beau.
Echo-words such as 'sense-vense' are common in colloquial Indian English
Mixing in English echo-words (jibber-jabber etc) the dreaded double copula (Is-IS) and the double modal (might could), for dramatic effect.
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#isis
#copula
#might-could
#pow-wow
#zig-zag
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