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My thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting my poem at International Times today.

This is from a sequence of found poems by poets writing about their poetry…

You can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/poets-in-their-poetry-4-commitment-poetry/

Having yesterday played around with some linguistic siliness about English/American words, I followed this up with an illustrative tea/supper of homemade sausage roll and ‘B&M Original Baked Beans with molasses, pork and spices’. Here is the initial context and prompt:

I have today thought about an earlier expression of this in my memoir, using better words to articulate the language nuances (spellings and pronunciations…):

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