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"English please?" they always say,When I'm trying to figure things out but my words drift away.From where their ears are trained to hear,The Boston Accent, and not foreign, strange or unclear.
Me 'appeny dip be swayin', Marlin
Hold me shakin' limbs, let 'er not sink
We both be Swayze, stoke on trent
Us antiseptics ain' not mean what we's meant
King death in and king death out
I apologize that
my tongue does
not flap the way
yours does
I’m sorry my
vernacular does
not meet your
standards
My southern twang
drips sparingly from
…
I know the answer, but the language is my fence,
However, some think, I lack a common sense.
Who in the world is born to speak all languages at once without accents?
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