I was missing English one day, American, really,
with its pill-popping Hungarian goulash of everything
from Anglo-Saxon to Zulu, because British English
is not the same, if the paperback dictionary
I bought at Brentano's on the Avenue de l'Opera
is any indication, too cultured by half.
~ Barbara Hamby (1952- ), "Ode to American English"
Saturday, July 7, 2012
"I was missing English one day..."
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