Tuesday, February 13, 2024

There are no Foreign Accents in Texas - poem

 


Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

There are no Foreign Accents in Texas

 

“For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America.”

 

– John Steinbeck

 

There are no foreign accents here, n'est-ce pas?

Un acento extranjero is for Auslander

And there are no mga dayuhan here

The dat belongs to all of us and to niemand

 

Before even the Pierwsze Narody there was the jord

And les humains have come in successive amaza

Izdao each other with אלימות and кровь

Κατακτήσεις and 背叛 instead of féastaí

 

But 私たち are trying to make it bora now -

There are no foreign accents here, capisci?

 

 

 

I played with Microsoft’s translator ]english to spanish - Search (bing.com)] because to my regret I have no language other than English and puer parvus scholis Latinis.

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