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Building the Tower of Babble

CEE

The Bible according to my mother
Using Babel to explain
Other languages
That there are people
Who quite naturally don’t live on our block
Who are very different from us
And not only can’t WE understand THEM
THEY can’t understand US
I’d never heard of such a disease
People who couldn’t understand English
How foolish!
Oh, no!, says mother
If you said to THEM
(banal pleasantry)
THEY would hear you saying
(sfx noise with mouth, face scrunched up as though
having a seizure)
Mother stood foursquare, all her Life
Foursquare, for The Party of Roosevelt
I could Not
Not after that
If just by very beingness, I would be perceived
As a whopping, mindless freak
By unintelligible people Not on our block,
Then, there must be something wrong with THEM
Because, guilt must be assigned
And, I can’t believe it’s me

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