Bilingual I'm Not
Can't express myself bilingually
In poetry or in speech
With my verbal singularity
Bilingual's out of reach
In France for "yes" they say "oui oui"
I can barely manage that
In Spain for "yes" they say "si si"
That's more than I can chat
"Sayonara" I can muster
That's the Japanese "good-by"
"Nyet" is said with bluster
No Russian can "deny"
When The Brits refuse to recognize
And scoff at how I speak
They claim English I've Americanized
I just turn the other cheek
From California to New Yawk
It's the language I converse in
The American way to talk
Is what I chat and verse in
by Stan Cooper...1/24/2007 graphic by Don Hunt
Poetry by Stan Cooper
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Written on 2008-01-28 at 15:15
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