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Mar 2019
gavin mcinnes:
english as standard.

   cato-wee-q'

           q': cue / queue
apostrophe

   "key"...

   i love playing
this game...
who's who
where's what?

   Q, q,
     is not subjected
to diacritical scrutiny,
given that it's
O, omicron...
with a fiddly bit,
Q, upper-case,
and a p "leg",
in the lower-case
format of"things",
i.e. q

repeat after me,
but i know you will not:
cato (yeah,
that roman philosopher)
vee(r)
                the R is
optional
                       c
                       t
                       s
                        e          'H

which basically implies...
the "xenophobe" populaces',
inherent bias,
translated into an "inability"
to, learn,
foreign, languages,
expecting, everyone,
to speak,
their nativistic / globalist,
language.

            sound about right...
no middle ground,
you either learn our language,
done that,
or you *******,
kevin spacey moment...
where am i supposed
to ******* to?
where those somalis came
from?

               i met you half-way...
what now?
a ******* hamburger fetish?
back "where":
that's also called
a deep-fried mars bar...

even "now":
it's now cato-vice,
or... cato-wee-qí (yes,
that's an acute iota,
a dot:
hovering over
a poιntless dιacrιtιcal
mιsuse of dιacrιtιcal
ιndιcators)...

               vy-ιce...
and that's not: vιa-ιce...
    sure as shιt ιt's not:
vιce...
      do, "you",
really need ιt?
    what?
   those dots, halo-hoverιng
above eιther I or J
ιn lower-case?

   where's 1? l, or I?
                     one, el, ιota?
to make "comparιsons"?
         seems ι came after
a beast that owned only
two heads...
and now: a hydra...

cato-v-"tst"eh...
    ι
ι      ι
    ι               ι
ι ι               ι      ι

i never asked to be taught
this language,
in order to integrate,
but,
having to bypass the natives,
and the quasi-natives,
to achieve
the lingua franca status
of the english language?

c and ć
   cierpki
     is as much
when...
you chop the "head" off the iota...
                 ćιerpki...

there's a difference between
being mad / angry,
and an outright circumstance
of expressing pedantry...
to counter, per se,

why would a language employ
easily nullified diacritical markers,
when, in point of fact,
they do not indicate
anything of use?

        maybe this is what
Heidegger talked about,
when something becomes
question-worthy,
the question instigator needs
to feed into a fear...
   perhaps that,
or perhaps that i'm drinking,
and i haven't eaten anything
within the confines of the past
24 hours...

then again, maybe i'm a walking
abortion,
      a "man-child",

lucky Jesus, lived to be only 33,
maybe i succumbed
to never being bored...
   maybe there's that,
replacing a concern for vinyl
with a contempt for video games...
or just the general
circumstance of being
   subjected to the question:
what is wrong with you?
culminating in this,
variant of, a claimed expression?

problem is...
     "problem",
or something alligned to
e. e. cummings...
   punctuation markers?

              mea culpa,
mea culpa, mea culpa....
mea culpa...
  and who, ever said,
there's nothing wrong,
with the person,
who asked you:
what's wrong with you?(?)

logic desires consitency,
even if the consitency
is credibly deemed
                     hypocritical.
Mateuš Conrad
Written by
Mateuš Conrad  36/M/Essex (England)
(36/M/Essex (England))   
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