Children's Names Today
Children’s names are not common any more,
Parents do not want their children to be plebeians.
I cannot pronounce most of them.
They are unique, like their child - gifted names,
Created by enterprising parents who did not want them to be plain in any way.
I get corrected a lot, by the whole class when I mispronounce Zyrahietta and Jostra’blend.
Their peers, who know how to say it now, yell it out in an exasperated way.
Thinking it funny that I do not know them yet. We have been in school three days.
Teachers learn twenty-five names a year.
The support staff is more successful when we learn all three hundred.
We are sunk if we do not, as even the plebeians respond to their name.
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