03-16-2016, 09:22 PM
(03-16-2016, 08:35 PM)Achebe Wrote:Huh-huh- who knows. I have a friend who only stammers on G-words and then only when sober...Gin and Tonic usually sorts him out but someone else has to order it.(03-03-2016, 10:20 PM)tectak Wrote: I thuh-thuh thought that I would sleep, but no.missed this somehow - I love poems that tell stories, and this one tells a nice little tale.
I muh-muh must have been awake all night.
I'm sure I'm happy nuh-nuh now but know
that wuh-wuh what I done just wasn't right.
I nuh-nuh know what people think of me.
For fuh-fuck's sake try walkin' in my shoes.
I hated kids way buh-back when, but we
were all kids then, though that ain't no excuse.
The guh-guh girls, I saw them look away:
and from behind their ears went up, a sign
that they were pullin' faces so I'd say
fuh-fuck you bitch, and lose face every time.
Except just once, her name was Clementine.
She had a kinda tick that made her twitch.
The other girls would ask her for the time
then luh-luh laugh n' call her Wind-up Witch.
We tuh-tuh talked most evenin's walkin' back.
She tuh-tuh twitched, I stammered, but we grinned.
The other kids would gather like a pack
and chant our names like we had somehow sinned.
One day I kissed her rough on thuh-the mouth.
I guess I thought I loved her...but she cried.
She ruh-ruh ran away back to her house
and told her puh-puh pah.Shit, how she lied.
And thuh-thuh that was when I up't an' went;
I luh-luh left a note for Wind-Up Witch.
The cops let loose the dogs, they got my scent,
and fuh-fuh found me hidin' in a ditch.
I never got the chance to tell my side.
I tried but wuh-wuh words just wouldn't come.
The judge, she said that all along I'd lied;
that I'd turn out to be a no good bum.
She told me just one chance was all I'd get;
three months in cuh-correction was my due.
Inside, I got the dirt from guys I met;
when I got out...I knew what I must do.
So here I stand with smokin' gun in hand.
They laughed at me but they're not laughing now.
I guess that now, at last, they understand.
My stammer's gone.Listen...listen...wow!
1tectak2016
the question is, is the stammer pattern authentic? 'W's are the hardest to pronounce, but 'wind up witch' is smooth.
Sorry, had to (try and) find fault with something!
Best,
tectak

