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Nada To Fear

I knew a black playwright, cried in his beer Trust me, Langston Hughes had nada to fear My friend wrote ‘too white’ 'King's English,' his plight I advised him, “Take Ebonics, you hear?”

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 4/28/2022 2:29:00 AM

So much fun!

Kenneth Cheney

Date: 4/27/2022 7:15:00 AM

We must not correct dialect. Just one of the many educational edicts a good educator should choose to ignore. There I said it.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/27/2022 7:33:00 PM

Sounds like 'a good educator' is really a 'double-plus ungood' teacher. ~ Big Brother

Jeff Kyser

Date: 4/27/2022 6:20:00 AM

Why you little reprobate, You cannot appropriate, Why you filled with so much hate? Progic/flawgic, ain't it great?

Tom Cunningham

Date: 4/27/2022 12:18:00 AM

Lol, that will solve it. Tom

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/27/2022 7:41:00 PM

As they say, "Ebonics don't be Phonics!" (Who's 'they' anyway?!).

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 4/26/2022 9:31:00 PM

Very good Gershon. I could have never come up with this. Blessings xxoo

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/27/2022 7:57:00 PM

Connie Marcum Wong! I wouldn't want you to come up with a ditty like this. Your poetry is too delightful to bother with bone-headed limericks, methinks. Excelsior! :) gw