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Subject: LANGUAGE - PRONUNCIATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ORATORICAL DIFFICULTY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'd like to speak of camouflage
Last Line: It shall not be in flanders.
Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation


BRIEF EXPERIMENT IN LINGUISTICS, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Position 1: stand erect with feet together, buttocks tight
Last Line: Robot - dollar - pistol - coucherama!) %under the night sky
Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation; Translating And Interpreting


DROPPING YOUR AITCHES, by JOSEPH WARREN BEACH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stopping at an otel with an iberian
Last Line: As a true confession, an istorical
Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation


FUNCKTIONSLUST, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's german for the pleasure in what one does best.
Last Line: A baby who never speaks a word of german knows, %tasting the nipple, the sweet milk flooding in.
Subject(s): Family Life; Germany; Language - Pronunciation


HOLLYWOOD AND HYDROQUINONE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She lightened her skin %played sousa and joplin
Last Line: I am your mother invent me
Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Maryland


HUNGARY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're home
Last Line: For a flicker of happiness
Subject(s): Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; Tourists; Travel


IMMIGRANTS WRESTLING WITH SOUNDS, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blackboard is parcelled like a small farmer's field
Last Line: Don't buy an immigrant dog
Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Hungary; Language - Pronunciation; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


ONE WORD, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have in my throat one word
Last Line: And my flesh abroad with no soul
Subject(s): Immigrants; Language - Pronunciation; Travel


SENRYU (88), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The accent back home
Last Line: The broader it gets
Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation


SPEECH ALONE, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happens that one pronounces
Last Line: Blaze in a sun of glory
Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation; Poetry And Poets; Speech