Critterature: the Frustrated Llama

The llama has a name that everybody mispronounces.
"The double 'll', it sounds like 'y'," he patiently announces.
"The single 'l', it sounds like 'l'," proceeds his dissertation,
"And a 'lama' is a holy man of Tibetan derivation.
But what I cannot understand," says he, 
"Is why it's not left up to me
To solve a problem that's become the worst case
Of mispronunciation in the history of creation,
And spell it 'yama', like it sounds, in the first place!"
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Fisher Avatar
November 12, 2023 at 1:44 PM
Enjoyed your poem, and never heard that pronunciation. Yinteresting!
Slaughter Avatar
November 12, 2023 at 1:49 PM
You and a lot of others, David. Thanks.
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