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I dedicate this to my cousin Jerry, who had dyslexia like me, but could never read.
And my 1st grade teacher who taught my father and I, two others with dyslexia to read.

 

 

This poem can be read as a whole poem or two separate poems 

by reading every other line, and it does not matter which line you begin with. 1 or 2.

Words in the belfry, words in the hall, words in my sandwiches, words for us all. What if you know no written words? What if you cannot read? What is my world? Words in my head, swirling around, making me laugh. Idiocy, munchkin and calf. How would you play video games if you could not read how to win or succeed? Crazy words, kooky words, sexy words too, sensuous words for the likes of you. You would grow up in a world, feeling completely left out, practically wanting to shout. Adjectives like worrisome, intense, sickening, magnificent, gloriously, dependably blue, Adjectives, smad-jectives, verbs, curbs, pronouns, ho-downs, they all make you pout. Verbs like shucking, laughing, jumping, whirling, swirling, dancing, prancing, wheezing, Verbs? You want me to care about something like that? I cannot read Dick, Spot or Jane. Gardening, swimming, oops, I am switching back to adjectives thinking of brimming. I cannot read sight words you moron, do not even know what they are, I am in pain. Words in my pancakes, words changing my food, butter, syrup, oozing, I am in a great mood! I will have to get along somehow, maybe as a thug, maybe selling coke, maybe selling a drug. I will be a linguist, librarian, teacher, I will write sermons, songs, maybe be a preacher. Cannot even play video games, let me be, your written-encrusted world has nothing for me.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 11/27/2018 7:58:00 PM
Very well done; great idea, the Poem within a poem. It does work that way.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/27/2018 9:57:00 PM
There was a contest on All Poetry for this. I saw it yesterday, thought "Who could DO that?" Woke up and did it today, but now I cannot find the contest. Karma.

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