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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=578614" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tawdry Apostrophe (Extended Metaphor) Part 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prologue<br>Alas not just the pure search, and procreative struggle of poetry<br>can a hood over psyche’s head put, and stumble out prison security<br>but attitudes to communication generally, particularly where it is difficult.<br>So let’s see, is my “Apostrophe” condescending self-indulgence <br>hiding behind an erudite popularism? (I have been told so.) <br>Something tawdry, base, inferior, unworthy of me and the world the poorer? <br>(I fear so.) <br>Or light verse ironic ephemera, gone tomorrow, raw rashly<br>attempting to self-justify, with cynical political expedience? <br>You are my referee and reviewer, for I fear indolence<br>and my political enemies’ public backlash, imperialist violence as prosody.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But a warning, I am serving no caviar and hors d’oeuvres; but cod, chips and vinegar<br>for this is no time for reflective trimeter, and lovingly chosen metaphor.<br>I have a story of ordure and a warning to give, the form I need is narrative<br>the boozy romp of bald description, the extra long line and hate inspired initiative.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well then. <br>An English Grammar School</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The single most common English grammar headache<br>don’t splutter, it’s no joke, keep your eyes open: <br>a punctuation mark in shape of a snake, posing as correct spelling<br>a vipers /s//&#601; z/ and worse, admitted, with split personality glaring.<br>It sounds like a hoax I know, but its bite swells /ziz/<br>so the best you can do is release the pressure with yelling<br>or risk ending up in English Lit, and in poetry truth discovering.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inexcusable, syntax more like semaphore, this apostrophe. <br>How and who first conceived, such boastful misanthropy<br>and wanton waste of school child’s precious learning years.<br>A guarantee of miscommunication and learning alienation<br>subtle psychological scarring and language fear<br>for millions of fresh faced innocents new each tear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us relive that first lesson in primer one, eyes wonder<br>it’s Mum and milk, and off-to-school, you’re nearly five. <br>Waiting no longer is lay priest, Jack of all, and local discretion<br>from national goals; but word builder, identity layer, English teacher! <br>This modern English teacher, the pride of political correctness<br>in whom impossible a sadistic tendency should reside unguessed<br>by deep criminal record checking, multi-panel personality vetting.<br>One of life’s little ironies then, in the hive of social progress<br>that the poison should be hidden in the lesson.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Philip+Housiaux">Philip Housiaux</a><div class=q>
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