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Rustle McBride
Poems
Jun 2016
On Consonantal Sounds
Here you stand
blowing raspberries
at my phonemic skills.
Please close your lips. Just listen.
Learn of
bilabial trills.
You may call me an animal
for my
alveolar clicks
,
for in America its only real use
is for
catcalling
chicks.
And not many understand
a
velar implosive stop,
that the words are the
gurgle
of a doughnut shop cop.
And yes, my
pharyngeal fricative
sounds like something's amiss.
But its not always contempt,
like some puppet show
hiss
.
So, if you just could excuse
my
pulmonic ingressive
,
I promise, If it feels like
it hurts,
I will be singly expressive.
I guess all I can say
is that when you hear what I say,
remember, it more than just words
that I try to convey.
a poet's take on linguistics
-------------------------------------
#words
#language
#speech
#sound
#diversity
#american
#linguist
Written by
Rustle McBride
Delaware
(Delaware)
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