William Kofoed Poet Free verse

Cruel Words

Early on
 When I was young
Teachers would
 Ask me to speak
Quickly then
 All would hear
That I
 Mispronounced my words
Some didn’t
 Think it real
Others just
 Pointed and mocked
Quickly I
 Tried not to speak
And learned
 To hate reading out loud
Doctors worked
 For many long years
Till I
 Could be understood
Memory lingers
 And still it is
Very hard
 To read out loud

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David Mchattie March 30, 2019 at 12:21 AM I had a speech impediment when I was young. One of the things I did was replace the ' t ' sound with an ' f ' sound. Mr brother was always trying to get me to say the word truck.