| Poet James Casey says:
Hey youse guys–I has been doing poetry among udder t'ings since 1957–youse-you-ell-ee
in duh oral tradition. Witch meens dat Eye pade mur attenzun to reedin'
poe-ah-tree den publishin' it.
Me fadder waz a hurett-ah-tary shahan-ah-key, und eye huv been gibben
de noose tah spall it among ye peens.
Fadder forgiv me fer the mis-spellings as I have overcum me word-fascist
upperlowerbringining to real-ah-lize dat de Inglo Langwo iz a poe-etts
de-lite.
Ya see da Gael-lick schtick haz two much badd car-mick-maher--despite
itz aunt-tiquitee---yah know! stuff-like-dat! De Potes tuk adavantage uv
de systern und got burn-ded. Sew de grate subaru muse god-essences-all-dat-iz
sed: "Hey greenblew white b'hoy we iz ah goin' ta gib dah power to a new
L-ing-wich whats got sum new zounds und maken youse b'hoys alla-mosta obsoleta-gone.
Youse donna spred dah newz, yew justa hida it in yur seekrut derryoak places
und nobuddy gets tah get da gist. Zo! Annie Ways. Hear iz a pome fer toaday.
Iffin ye wantz me ta right a colum, ida be hapee two. Ifin not, den sum
buddy elsa iz gonna be fame us. Gotcha!
So/Zo? The Bard called Shakespeare invented over 600 new words into
Inglish. It is not hebrew, greek, etruscan, latin or gaelic. It is an eater
of languages. I have retired and will volunteer to destroy all images of
the written word as i am the son of a hereditary shanachie from an oral
tradition. Irish Catholic Sisters and Christain Brothers brutalized me
for the power I uttered.
I must maintain the power of the spoken word! The written word is an
orphan and almost an anathema to me, but not quite. I am not one to punish
the abandoned. I admit I am mad unlike no other.
Will yew be the first to unleash the madness of the accumulated dross
of centuries curled up in my Celtic mind? If not yew and yewers will cry
and beat yer breasts that ye had abandoned the primal whind of all of our
families upon all of the plains upon all uv the times und all of de Udderwhirls!
Let Casey be Ferree! Let hiz minda Goe T'ree ind duh Mew-zizz Rev-er-ree!
Poet Casey can reached at caseymcpoet@att.net.
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